CPP Candidate congratulates President

Koforidua, Jan. 8, GNA - Mr Isaac Opare- Addo, Convention People's Party (CPP) parliamentary candidate for Aburi Nsawam, for last year's general elections on Thursday congratulated President John Evans Attah Mills and the National Democratic Congress (NDC) on their victory in the elections.

In an interview with the GNA in Koforidua, Mr Opare-Addo said he was particularly happy about a promise by President Mills to nurture the smaller parties including the CPP. He said Ghana was the winner in the elections and called for concerted efforts from all to help the new administration to succeed.

Mr Opare- Addo appealed to the NDC Government to consider the building of a sports village at Aburi where sportsmen and women would go for acclimatization purposes. He said such a facility would earn and save foreign exchange for the country as there would be no need to send sportsmen to other high attitude countries for acclimatization. "The facility can cater for sportsmen from other countries in the sub-region as well, thereby earning foreign exchange for the country and also create employment for the teeming unemployed youth".

Mr Opare-Addo appealed that there would be an end to the litigation on Nsawam Cannery so that the factory can come back to "life" to give employment to the people in the constituency. He also appealed to President Mills to help ASTEK Industries at Nsawam "to come back to life" and start immediate operation. Mr Opae-Addo was optimistic that if those policies were implemented many people in the area would be gainfully employed thereby taking a majority of the youth off the streets.