We'll Restore Health of Cedi

The President, Mr John Agyekum Kufuor, has said Ghana would draw capital from within the sub-region and overseas, if it tackles the devaluation characteristics of the currency successfully.

We need to work on our currency and if we can tackle the problem successfully we will be drawing capital from within the sub-region and overseas; he said. President Kufuor sia dthis in an interview with CNN International's Inside Africa programme in Accra which covered a wide range of issues, including Ghana's legal system the economy education and health.

The interview was the first since he tool office as Ghana's President. On achievement after his term, President Kufour said "At the end of four years, we would have introduced sanity into the money unit of government which is a rare commodity. People have not seen this within the 43 years of governance since independence. But at the end of fours years we would have achieved that and we would have helped to establish the legal system and the Judiciary in such a way that people will begin to fell that truly, justice is delivered without fear or favour in this country', President Kufour stressed.

The President said the private sector would be put on course within the same period because his government subscribes to the principle of market economy and believes in individual initiative. We would also put quality back into education and make health affordable among other things we expect to deliver he added. On Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome (AIDS) President Kufour advocated education on the best way to combat the deadly disease.

said education should be the keys as well as having access to new scientific discoveries and making them affordable to people generally. Education in the sense that when you succeed in making the people aware that their lives and the future of whole communities are at stake they will be careful as the how to live because as far as we know there is as yet no cure for this deadly disease, President Kufour said.