President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has affirmed that there will
be equitable distribution of national resources throughout the country.
He said his New Patriotic Party (NPP) government would not
discriminate against any area; rather, it would ensure developmental projects
reach every part of the country, particularly those in the deprived areas.
“I will make sure developmental projects are done in the entire
country. I’m not going to discriminate with regard to the provision of
developmental projects like what the previous government did. It provided
projects based on votes but I will not do that,” the President said during a
tour of the Eastern Region on Saturday.
Free SHS Challenges
Addressing residents of Begoro in the Fanteakwa North District,
President Akufo-Addo admitted that there were infrastructural challenges as far
as the implementation of the free SHS was concerned but said the government was
taking steps to resolve them.
According to him, the reason why he has decided to invest in the
educational sector is to get closer to the developed countries where technology,
social and economic development reign supreme.
“It is important to make the area of education in this generation
broad and we cannot allow money to be a barrier to access to education in our
time and for that matter it is important that Ghana foster in this era through
education,” he stressed.
He charged those who are going to take the exams next year to do
well to shame those criticizing the Free SHS policy, saying “it is your
responsibility to make sure that your grades and your exams are very positive
and very exemplary.”
“My plea is that there are some people in this country who never
wanted this Free SHS. They described it as a gimmick and said it could not
work. They said it was expensive. Now they are saying when they come back to
office, they are going to review it. Those of you who are going to take your exams in June as the first Free SHS beneficiaries
have a big responsibility to make sure that your grades and exam results are
very positive and exemplary so that together we can say ‘shame’ to all of those
who did not want the policy to succeed,” he declared.
Police
He said upon assumption of office, the entire Police Service had only
250 vehicles to fight crime but said he had provided the police with more
accoutrements to work with, including vehicles.
He disclosed that his government intended to supply more than 1,000
vehicles to the police and currently about 600 had been done.
Besides, he disclosed that the government would recruit 4,000 people into the Police Service, this year.
FROM Daniel Bampoe, Begoro
