The Northern Development Authority will in the coming weeks advertise in the national dailies for would-be applicants to bid for projects under the New Patriotic Party (NPP) campaign flagship programme - the One Village, One Dam.
The Vice President of the Republic, Dr. Alhaji Mahamudu Bawumia, who announced this at the 69th Annual New Year School and Conference in Accra today, January 15, 2018 assured of transparency in the bidding process and called on all qualified companies to put in their bid for a successful project.
This Year’s New Year School and Conference is on the theme: “Job Creation for Accelerated National Development: The Role of the Private Sector.”
Acknowledging the importance of the theme, the Vice President noted that, the high unemployment is the key and most pressing issue of our time and the government is putting in measures to deal with it.
According to him, unemployment is a national security issue, assuring the government will not look on for it to escalate into a time bomb.
“This is why the President has placed job creation as the number one priority of government. It goes without saying, however, that the government’s role is to put in place the enabling environment for the private sector to drive job creation,” Vice President Bawumia stated.
Dr Bawumia said the country needs to do things differently, since the same things cannot help us achieve the needed results.
“After 60 years of independence, it is clear that we have to do things differently because you cannot do the same things and expect different results. Countries such as China, South Korea, Malaysia, UAE, etc. have shown that transformation can be achieved in one generation and therefore it is possible for Ghana to do same,” he said.
The New Year School is under the aegis of the School of Continuing and Distance Education under the College of Education. The 69th Annual New Year School and Conference is under the theme: “Job Creation for Accelerated National Development: The Role of the Private Sector” from Monday, 15th January 2018 to Friday 19th January 2018.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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I guess he is talking of a pond rather.
@ Ghanaba: I wish this commentator changes his/her name from Ghanaba since none of his comments is Ghanaian. After 8 years of NDC rule the nation is rottenn to the core and needs someone to lay down practicable foundation. Your insulttss cannot put food on the table but dams and farms can. With the billions borrowed by the NDC what could they do apart from building schools for lizards and snakes and chasing guinea fowls to Burkina? No wonder you are full of insulttss since your party leaders know nothing so can teach you guys nothing. With the insulttss and liess being perpetrated your MPs in parliament, what else should people expect from you ordinary party members?
YOU SEE NPP WILL WORK TRUST ME NDC DONT HAVE ANY MESSAGE TRUST ME LIES AND PROPAGANDA SAAAAA
If people like you are living in Ghana how can we progress as a nation.
I wonder when the dams will be finished and when the farms to propel Ghana into prosperity will start! When other countries are building new cars that have no steering and robots that are as intelligent as man, we are talking stone age technology! Apuuuu!! This will not work. Maybe after the Dams, the next will be to build schools to train people who will learn irrigation and so know how to use the dams for the farms! What dam is bigger than Akosombo in the world and why have we not been able to use it? and now have to build new dams?? Koo Darkie!! What is wrong with you?? Where I live now, people do cultivations in their rooms and one will be surprised what they produce! What is wrong with us?? The farmers we have can only produce for the local market! If we want export, the approach should be different. Serious mechanization is the way forward! A dam is only good if the rains fall and if there is rainfall, sure we need no dams. So the dam dries up in the dry season anyway!! can't we identify arable areas around the dams that we already have and rather put the money we are going to waste into the cultivations already?? Me I am tired self!!
GOOD NEWS.
Even the national ID card was said to have started with the president receiving one, now it has turned out to be a fake ID. You don't need to keep making needless promises, just go ahead and start contracting the dams before coming out with this news. This is childish mr vice president.
To be honest I really admire Dr. Bawumia. He is so confident. He gives me hope.