Job creation utmost importance to Ghana’s future - Akufo-Addo
The creation of hundreds of thousands of jobs for the teeming masses of unemployed Ghanaian youth is of utmost importance if Ghana is to guarantee a bright future for her citizens, the 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has said.
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According to Nana Akufo-Addo, voting for a competent and visionary government that has the policies and programmes to create jobs should be of utmost concern to Ghanaians, as the country heads to this year’s elections.
A statement from the party said the NPP flag bearer made this known when he toured the Kintampo North and Kintampo South constituencies, on day four of his five-day tour of the Brong Ahafo Region.
Visiting Jema, Gulumpe and Kintampo last Monday, Nana Akufo-Addo explained that a nation that could not provide the basic needs of its citizenry risked being plunged into chaos in the not-too-distant future.
To this end, Nana Akufo-Addo said the creation of jobs, as he had previously stated, would be his number one focus when he wins this year’s election.
“You have heard me outline my ‘1-District-1-Factory’ policy, which is meant to help create jobs for our young people. I stand by that pledge. We (the NPP) are also coming into office to create an enabling environment for the private sector to flourish, and also diversify and improve our agriculture. This is how we can put cash into the pockets of Ghanaians. When there’s money in the pockets of the citizenry, then there will be progress and peace in the country,” he added.
I’m not sick
In another development, Nana Akufo-Addo has mocked attempts by some newspapers to portray him as sick, and unable to campaign ahead of this year’s election.
The Monday, July 11, 2016, edition of the Enquirer newspaper reported that the NPP flag bearer had last Sunday suspended his campaign tour of the Brong Ahafo Region due to ill-health, had been flown back to Accra, and was on admission at a hospital.
The newspaper added that a warning had been issued to Akufo-Addo’s campaign team by his health handlers to ensure that he did not stay out after 5p.m.
Last Monday, while campaigning in Jema, in the Kintampo South Constituency, Nana Akufo-Addo ridiculed the publication, describing it as laughable and a desperate sign of a party that has no message and clutching at straws in order to win an election.
“There is a publication in one of the NDC newspapers that I am sick and on admission in a hospital in Accra. Is the Jema lorry park a hospital? I did indicate at the end of last Sunday’s campaign (at Subinso, in Wenchi), that I had to attend to an urgent business in Accra and would return on Monday. Here I am. To the NDC, at all cost I have to be sick. If I’m not sick, it means they have no message to campaign with and that would mean defeat for them in this year’s election. They seem to have invested all their political capital in my state of health,” he said.
The NPP flag bearer continued, “God is the One who looks after us all, and not the wishes of human beings. I am strong. As you see me now, do I look anything close to a sick person? The NDC is claiming that I am a very old man, who is unable to walk. I am fit, and full of strength to campaign and, if God so wishes, govern this nation in a proper manner.”