The Vice Presidential Candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Prof. Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang has said that political campaigns should focus strictly on either an account of stewardship, or superior policies and programmes to address identified development challenges.
She said campaign of insults should have no space in our politics because they contribute nothing but unnecessary tensions and avoidable enmity.
“So it shouldn’t be about just talk, name-calling, or propaganda. Remember, that will not bring light, water, or peace,” she stated.
Speaking at Bodi in the Western North Region on October 3, Prof Opoku-Agyeman stressed that campaign periods should be used to render “an account of what I have done as compared to yours. You said you would build 360 schools; how many have you built? Don’t just tell us, show us where they are.”
“Development is, and should be, the only reason we vote: that, if it’s a clinic, it moves to a polyclinic; that the well-being of the citizens becomes paramount.”
“…and the NDC has proven to be one that prioritizes not just any development, but holistic development that leaves no one behind.”
Prof. Opoku-Agyemang reiterated the party’s promise of an ultramodern children’s hospital, free sanitary pads for the girl child, free breast cancer screenings, and other measures designed to encourage and ensure women can play their roles without hindrance.
Cocoa Roads
The Vice Presidential Candidate assured that the next NDC government would continue all abandoned cocoa roads.
“Regrettably, this government has failed to make public its report on the cocoa road project after making so much noise and accusations about it.”
Roads in cocoa-growing areas continue to deteriorate, and Prof. Opoku-Agyemang explained that the NDC understood the enormous economic significance of having good roads in such areas and was therefore purposeful with the cocoa road project.
She also promised that a Mahama-Opoku-Agyemang government would restore the free fertilizer programme and pay the right producer price to farmers, these measures she said, significantly contributed to record cocoa production and improved the economic fortunes of the farmers.
Source: 3news.com
