NPP youth told to support membership drive

Takoradi, Nov.19, GNA 96 Members of the Tertiary Education Students Confederacy (TESCON) of New Patriotic Party (NPP) have been urged to strategise and come out with efficient programmes to enhance membership drive.

Alhaji Raman Issa, Chairman of Effia-Kwesimintsim Constituency branch of NPP Nasara club who made the call said effective membership drive required the members to propagate achievements of the Government since assumption of power in January 2001.

He was addressing members of Takoradi Polytechnic Chapter of TESCON at a forum at Takoradi on Saturday.

It was part of the Chapter's activities to formally induct new members that included presentation of food items and second-hand clothing worth about 1.5 million cedis to the Sekondi Twin-City Special School and a cleanup exercise at Effia-Nkwanta Government Hospital. Alhaji Issa advised the youth particularly those in the Zongo communities to be wary of politicians who might use them for their selfish agenda.

He stressed the need for unity and hard work among members of the various structures of NPP to enable it win the 2008 elections. Mr Yaw Amoabeng Acheampong, Western Regional Monitoring Officer of School Feeding Programme said 15,000 pupils were currently benefiting from the programme in the region. He said the programme on pilot basis was to enable pupils have the required nutrition to develop sound mind and body to perform well in school.

Mr Acheampong noted that achievements of the Government were a threat to the survival of opposition political parties hence the efforts to discredit instead of commending the Government and NPP. Ms Agnes Naana Amoah, Effia-Kwesimintsim NPP Constituency Women's Organiser said the party had placed premium on the role of women and called on women activists to collaborate effectively with the men to work hard for the party. Mr Isaac Awuku, Special Aide to Dr Kofi Konadu Apraku, a Presidential Aspirant of NPP, said the massive development programmes undertaken by the Government was enough evidence of efficiency and pragmatism of the party. He said the country's future depended on the youth and should not allow themselves to be taken for a ride by self-seeking politicians. .