Despite the difficult times

NDC chair promises better days ahead
Posted: The Chronicle | Tuesday, August 04, 2009

By Charles Takyi Boadu


The Greater Accra Regional Chairman of the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr. Daniel Anang has asked members of the party to exercise patience to enable the government deliver on the numerous promises it made to Ghanaians during the 2008 electioneering campaign.
Mr. Anang, who has just begun a visit to the various constituencies in the region to get first hand information about the existing situation on the ground, told The Chronicle in an interview that after interacting with people in four constituencies; including his own Ledzokuku constituency, Ayawaso East and Central, Weija and Ablekuma Central, he got the impression that people are disenchanted about existing conditions in the country.

As justified as their grievance may be, he noted that it was too early in the day for people to start grumbling, since President Mills and his NDC administration has a lot of work on their hand to do, having inherited a legacy of a virtually broken economy from the previous NPP administration.

He noted that government was bent on first fixing the economy, which would translate into improve the living conditions of Ghanaians, and therefore urged them to bid their time - because ‘better days are yet to come.’

According to him, most of the people he interacted with complained about unavailability of job opportunities and how they cannot reach their representatives in government, including their own Members of Parliament (MPs).

Mr. Anang however diffused the impression that the MPs have neglected the people since found themselves in government.

Now that Parliament is on recess, he believes it would give the MPs an opportunity to have frequent interactions with the people, since their schedule are not too tight.

That notwithstanding, he urge MPs and others who have been given the opportunity to serve in government to make themselves available to the people since they are the very people on whose backs they rode to power.

On the issue of employment creation, the Regional Chairman emphasised that government has plans to create more job opportunities for not only members of the NDC, but for all Ghanaians.

For this reason, he indicated that sooner than later, government would role out a comprehensive programme to create more jobs for the youth, most of who are currently sitting home without gainful employment.

He promised the people that President Mills and his administration would deliver on the numerous promises he made to Ghanaians during the 2008 electioneering campaign. Aside that he, urged the country’s teeming youth to take advantage of the Youth in Agriculture Programme (YAP) to go into gainful employment.

‘The NDC long term objective is to promote and create productive employment opportunities in all sectors of the economy” he said emphasising “our policies on investment and on training are designed to create employment and enable productive ventures to tap the needed manpower.”

It the expectation of the NDC Regional Chairman and his executives to complete their visit to all 27 constituencies in the Greater Accra Region by the middle of September, to enable them have first hand information on the ground.