Dr. Bawumia Assures Teachers of better conditions of service

THE RUNNING mate of the NPP Presidential Candidate in this year’s elections, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has assured teachers; especially those teaching in deprive areas of improved conditions of service when voted into office. He said all teachers after ten years of service will get a subsidised housing loans to build their houses anywhere in the country. Addressing members of Tertiary Students Confederacy from the Bolgatanga Polytechnic, University for Development Studies, St. John Bosco College of Education at the campus of Bolgatanga Polytechnic, as part of his tour of the Upper East Region, Dr. Bawumia said the NPP was committed to improving the well being of Ghanaians through is Free SHS programme, jobs creation and quality healthcare programme and urged the youth in the region to ignore the wave of pessimism against the NPP proposed policies by the ruling NDC. He was accompanied by former Vice President, Alhaji Aliu Mahama, Prince Imoro Andani, former Northern Regional Minister, Hajia Alima Mahama, Madam Rita Asobayire, former Women’s Organiser of NPP, Mr. Paul Afoko, Mr. Emmanuel Signet Asigri, a member of the Communication Team as well as regional executives of the NPP. Responding to claims that free SHS is not possible, he said if when President Nkrumah first introducing free education in the north, the whole of the three northern regions had just one middle boarding school. He said in that regard if Dr. Nkrumah had said there were not enough schools, hence he will not introduce free education in the north, in that case, Dr. Hilla Limann and the current President, John Mahama who are all beneficiaries of Nkrumah’s policy, will not have grown to become leaders of this country. He said persons who have benefitted from such intervention in the past should not stand in the way of the children of this country, insisting that the NPP will pit in place the infrastructure alongside the policy in the first four years of an Akufo-Adda administration. He said the NPP believes in the fact that education and human resource accumulation is what drives growth hence the resolve of the NPP under an Akufo-Addo led administration to make education at the Senior High School level free to give every Ghanaian child an opportunity to develop his or her capabilities. “We cannot have a situation where money prevents people accessing education. We want our children irrespective of where they find themselves to get the best of education”, he said stressing that the under the NPP government, 350 new SHS will be built in the first four years. He accused the NDC government for mismanaging the economy in spite of the many resources available to them adding that contrary to the better Ghana promised Ghanaians, many more people are suffering from “a harder, bitter and ‘Wahala’ Ghana.” “The NDC government inherited more opportunities make a difference in this country. They are the best government in the history of this country to inherit an oil extraction industry; they are the government that has borrowed more money more than all other government that has ruled Ghana from the days of President Nkrumah. Dr. Bawumia said the NDC administration had been going round tooting its horns that it had revamped the Northern Star Tomato Factory but the situation on the ground presently does not reflect the reality. He said the NPP when voted into power will give real meaning by revamping the factory which will change the lifestyles of the people for the better and improve lives through job creation in the region. Agriculture will be a major area of priority under an Akufo-Addo presidency, in the north the tree northern regions will become the rear bread basket of West Africa. He said the NPP will invest and modernise agriculture adding that happily neighbouring Burkina Faso has provided the model for the way forward. He added that NPP under Nana Akufo-Adoo will enhance irrigation facilities and embark of a major dam construction project to boost all year farming. -End-