Nkwanta (V/R), July 19, GNA - Mr Joseph Kwaku Nayan, Deputy Volta Regional Minister on Tuesday said government had demonstrated enough goodwill towards the planning, management and development of all facade of the economy that demanded its continuity in political governance.
He mentioned notably the 547 million dollar Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) project being the latest government-United States collaboration and intervention, which principally focused on rural agriculture, transportation and community development.
Speaking to the Ghana News Agency in an interview, Mr Nayan said the country was witnessing an unparallel development agenda under the tutelage of President J. A. Kufuor, which had been acknowledged widely, including the international community.
He attributed the prudent and sterling performance of government to the judicious use of resources towards prescribed projects unlike the misappropriation and misapplication, which heralded certain regimes in the history of the country.
Mr Nayan, also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nkwanta North said Ghanaians were yet to see the vim in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and had no other chance than to retain the party in the 2008 general elections to facilitate its early qualification into a middle-income country.
On development in the Constituency, he outlined that
over 50 students from the senior secondary, teacher training,
health aides and the university had benefited from scholarship
schemes emanating from his MPs Common Fund, totalling 150
million cedis in the 2005/2006 academic year alone. He said a technical workshop was constructed for the
Kpassa Senior Secondary School, worth 140 million cedis and
the rehabilitation of the school bus at a cost of 33 million cedis
with resources from the Ghana Education Trust Fund (Getfund). On roads, Mr Nayan said Kadjebi-Damanko trunk road
network had been earmarked for construction next year to open
up the area, Kpassa-Tenjasi road billed for surfacing and routine
maintenance, with culvert works on the Damanko-Ogyri
completed for actual construction and Kpassa-Kambale road
being improved. He said feasibility work has been completed to pipe
the Oti River to serve Damanko-Kpassa communities with a
population of about 40,000 under the Governments of Ghana
and DFID, as a roadmap to solving the perennial guinea worm
scourge in the area. Mr Nayan said several interventions were being
undertaken to improve agriculture, the pre-occupation of the
people in the area to increase productivity and create wealth.
