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General News of Friday, 23 November 2007

Source: GNA

I would help reduce mass exodus of Ghanaian workers- Aggudey

Bolgatanga, Nov. 23, GNA- Mr George Aggudey, an aspiring presidential candidates of the Convention People's Party (CPP) has assured Ghanaians that he would create an enabling environment for workers to stay in the country instead of traveling outside to seek greener pastures.

He made the statement when he interacted with media personnel at Bolgatanga in the Upper East Region after the Party's Delegates Conference.

"Doctors, Nurses and Teachers are some of the workers who play a key role in the nation's development and lot of resources need to be invested in them", he said.

Mr Aggudey explained that if they were paid well and given a better condition of service they would stay in the country and render quality services to Ghanaians. Mobile Clinics, he noted, would also be provided under his administration at vantage points in the country to render services to patients.

Mr Aggudey said Ghanaians had the brains and the capacity to develop the country when taken good care of, and did not need expatriates to do their work for them. He said the CPP had good human and social policies that could help transform the nation.

"The state only needs a right leadership and the right attitude with quality vision to transform the economy," he said. He appealed to the delegates to vote for him to become the presidential candidate of the Party to enable him to capture the Presidency in the 2008 elections. "I have all it takes to wrest power from the other presidential aspirants of the all the political parties", he said.