"NPP Has Fulfilled Most Promises" -NPP

The Central Regional deputy secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Mr. Paul Annan, has stated that the Kufuor administration has fulfilled most of its campaign promises and called on the electorate to retain the government in owe in the next elections.

He, therefore cautioned the government?s opponents and critics to give credit where it is due and criticize when necessary to offer the electorate credible information to assess the performance of the government. Mr. Annan said as a way of fulfilling the party?s campaign process, the Kufuor administration created the Women and Children?s Ministry to cater for the welfare and interest of women and children.

?The loans which Mrs. Gladys Asmah?s ministry has been offering to women have empowered them economically and most of them are not supplementing their family budgets, Mr. Annan said. He said majority of the children who voluntarily or involuntarily migrated to Yeji on fishing expeditions during the 1980s and 90s had been sent home through the efforts of the Ministry of Women and Children?s Affairs, adding that a good number of them were now attending school.

He said the various government interventions, such as the President?s Special Initiative (PSI) had helped to offer employment to the youth throughout the country. The government has also introduced the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), eh said and explained that it would create equity in the health delivery system.

He said the party expressed worry over the apathetic attitude of the previous administration to the serial killing of women and promised to do everything within its power to stop it when it was elected into office, and added that had also been attained. He therefore advised the electorate not to allow themselves to be hoodwinked by some ?power-hungry politicians who unjustifiably had described the government as a failure.