Mahamudu Bawumia, vice presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party, has said that the next NPP government will usher in a Golden Age of Rural development and that rural and deprived communities will see development like they have never seen before under a Nana Akufo-Addo government.
Dr Bawumia explained that this would be made possible due to the well-thought-out policies and vision of the NPP aimed at spreading development and growth all across the country and especially, the policy to reallocate $275 million of the capital expenditure budget to the 275 constituencies directly for development.
Speaking in Chereponi in the Northern Region on Monday, Dr Bawumia said, “we have major plans for this country. We are going to introduce new policies that are going to grow this economy, create jobs and bring development to the north and to Ghana as a whole. We are going to introduce a Golden Age of Rural Development in Ghana. This is going to be an age where constituencies like Chereponi are going to see development like they have never seen before since independence,” he stated.
Explaining the rationale behind the Infrastructure for Poverty Eradication Programme, the NPP vice presidential candidate indicated that the initiative was designed to put the resources and power in the hands of the masses to address basic developmental issues like access to water for drinking and farming, sanitation facilities, motorable roads etc. that plague rural and deprived communities.
“We are going to make sure that money for development does not stay in the centre but comes to Chereponi. From next year, for the first time in the history of Ghana, we are going to take a part of our Capital expenditure budget, we are going to reallocate a part of it to every constituency in Ghana, every constituency will get their share. From next year, every year without fail Insha Allah, Chereponi Constituency will get GHC4million or 40billion old cedis; every constituency in Ghana will get GHC 4million, which is the equivalent of $1million for your own development,” he stated.
He added, “You are no longer going to wait for Accra before you get money to solve your basic problems or for a government to come and say they are using the money for to rear Guinea Fowls that have run away to Burkina Faso. And it is not like we are going to come in and look for the money. The money is already sitting there. We are going to take it and bring it to Chereponi Constituency and other constituencies.”
Speaking on Sunday in Saboba, Dr Bawumia stated that the new age of Rural development follows in the stead of the vision and policies of the Progress Party government led by Dr Kofi Abrefa Busia in the early 1970s which focused development in the rural and deprived communities of Ghana.
“You are going to see a major transformation. We are going to bring about a Golden age of rural development in Ghana. Our development budget for the last 59 years has been skewed and that is why there is so much underdevelopment. This is why we have to bring about a new age, a golden age of rural development picking up from where Prime Minister Busia’s government left off, where we had a focus on Rural Development; Nana Akufo-Addo will also focus on Rural Development ,”he said.
Mahamudu Bawumia explained that with the GHC4million to be allocated to each constituency annually, local solutions would be found to local problems as constituencies can for example invest in the purchase of borehole drilling equipment or bulldozers to tackle the water shortages that affect several communities across the country.
Source: The Herald
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NDC is best known for using the State Resources, money, cars, houses to buy the conscience of the Directors and workers at EC office. They don't care the effects of these actions on the Ghanaian economy. So EC will not act in fairness before, during and after election. This is the problem the Country is facing. Ghanaians should watch EC carefully. NPP should use the Supreme Court to outwit any plans NDC and EC will use to rig the election. Ballot papers and Pink Sheets designs will all be given to NDC to make their copies before they are even printed. NPP should not trust anyone in the EC office. Ballot papers and Pink Sheet should be printed in UK and if possible colours be changed to outwit all the NDC plans
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