District Assembly Elections comes on in June 2002

District Assemblies elections would take place in June, next year, Captain (rtd) Nkrabea Effa-Darteh, Deputy Minister of Local Government and Rural Development announced on Friday at Koforidua.

He, therefore, urged the electorates to ensure that people of integrity were elected to the Municipal and District Assemblies.

Capt. Effa-Darteh was speaking at a Christmas party organised by the Koforidua Constituency Branch of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to honour the 182 polling agents of the party in Koforidua constituency in the 2000 general elections.

He said Ghanaians had no cause to be poor but due to alleged corrupt practices by members of the previous government, the country was now poor.

The Deputy Minister assured supporters of the party that anybody who had stolen money belonging to the people of Ghana would be tried and made to suffer for it.

The Minister for Works and Housing, Mr. Yaw Barimah said "before the elections, the party never expected that the economy of the country had been destroyed to such a low level by the 19 years rule of the previous government".

He, however, gave the assurance that the government would use its first year in office to resolve the basic problems in the economy and by next year, Ghanaians would begin to feel the " positive change" that the NPP promised.

Mr. Barimah who is also the Member of Parliament (MP) for the constituency, assured the people of Koforidua Zongo that plans had been put in place to rehabilitate most of the major roads in the area. He assured the people of the municipality that the government would solve the perennial water problem.