Mills is No. 1 storyteller - Anyidoho

The Director of Communications at the Presidency, Koku Anyidoho has underscored the rationale behind the president’s tour to some parts of the country, saying it would afford President Mills the direct platform to tell Ghanaians projects executed and being executed by his administration.

He indicated to Joy News’ that the president had to blow his own trumpet because most of the good things he has done have been kept in the dark.

“We are learning that his government is lightening a number of candles, but it looks like the candles are just being hidden under the bed. So it is about time we told our story more comprehensibly.

“And indeed that is why he is embarking on this working visit around the country, because he is the number one storyteller, and he is the best person to tell the story; and so once he moves around everybody pays attention.”

He stressed that the government has made headways in the area of job creation, employment, environment and infrastructure.

Mr Anyidoho, however, admitted that inspite of the success the Mills administration has chalked, “a lot, lot more need to be done”, adding that the president would do his part to develop the country.

On the unbearable traffic situation in the capital Accra, Mr Anyidoho, maintained that the problem has been a long standing one, but enumerated steps taken by the government to ease the situation.

Commissioning a waste recycling and compost plant that is expected to recycle about 30 metric tonnes of waste generated in Accra on a daily basis at Ajinkotoku, President Mills bemoaned the waste situation in Accra.

He said the plant would “help tremendously as to controlling the waste situation in Greater Accra, and I am happy to be associated with its commissioning…I believe that Greater Accra will be one of the cleanest cities that one can find.”

The president has also challenged his critiques to go round the country and ascertain for themselves how he is fulfilling the promises he made to Ghanaians.

“You have seen the difference for yourselves, you can see what we are done and I am appealing to you; come 2012 give us four more years to continue,” President Mills told a gathering at Mamprobi.

The president’s final tour of the Greater Accra on Thursday also took him to Achimota-Ofankor road, Ashaladza, Mallam and Dansoman.

Joy News’ presidential correspondent, Seth Kwame Boateng said for most of the places they visited, people poured out in their numbers to welcome the president. At the Mallam junction, for instance, he said the president’s convoy heading to Dansoman, had to move in a snail pace due to the huge turnout of residents to catch a glimpse of the president.

“The crowd was huge. People had come out of their shops and homes to see the president, some for the first time,” he recounted.

The president's next tour would take him to the Volta Region, possibly next week, Director of Communications at the Presidency noted.