President Akufo-Addo greeting a chief in Nyinahin
President Akufo-Addo has assured Ghanaians that the country’s bauxite deposits will be exploited for the benefit of all Ghanaians, and not owned by just a person.
Addressing residents of Nyinahin in the Atwima Mponua Constituency in the Ashanti Region yesterday, the President stated that the Ghana Integrated Bauxite and Aluminium Development Authority would serve as the vehicle for the establishment of an integrated aluminium industry in Ghana, unlike in the past when the whole deposit was being given to a person.
“What we are coming to do for the next four years, the people of Nyinahin will be great beneficiaries,” the President said, adding “the bauxite which would have been the property of one person would be developed for all to benefit.”
“The Ghana integrated Bauxite and Aluminium Development Authority will soon be complete for the mining of the bauxite, out of which an industrial revolution will emerge to bring money, jobs and development to Nyinahin,” he said.
President Akufo-Addo stressed that the policies and programmes implemented by his government since 2017 were further proof that the New Patriotic Party had a clear understanding of how to put the country onto the path of progress and prosperity.
“The New Patriotic Party has got the blueprint for the development of Ghana, and it is going to be concretized in Akufo-Addo’s second term as President of the Republic. That is the programme ahead of us and for our country,” he said.
Rousing Welcome
President Akufo-Addo was given a rousing welcome when he entered the Ashanti Region on Monday to start his three-day tour of the region which is the stronghold of the ruling NPP.
When news of his arrival hit town, people besieged the streets to cheer and wave him amid chants of ‘4More4nana!’, ‘No.1 On the ballot’ among others with blurring sounds from vuvuzela-wielding crowds.
The President announced his arrival in the Ashanti regional capital, Kumasi, with a scheduled interview with ‘Angel FM’, a local radio station.
From Sofoline Interchange to the Abrepo Junction in the Bantama Constituency from where the station broadcasts, the streets were flooded with enthusiastic NPP supporters literally making it impossible for him to alight from his vehicle to enter the studio for the interview.
The security detail had a tough time walking through the thick crowd to make way for the President to the studio.
After the interview, President Akufo-Addo had no option but to stand at the entrance of the station and wave at the enthusiastic supporters for sometime before being whisked to continue his campaign.
The police did not have it easy directing vehicular traffic from the Abrepo Junction traffic light which connects to the Suame Roundabout, Bantama, Abrepo and Sofoline Interchange; and some passengers in commercial vehicles had to alight and walk to their various destinations.
The situation was no different from the Suame roundabout to Maakro where scores of people had lined up on the shoulders of the road to cheer him.
It was an interesting sight to behold when the President’s convoy got to Offinso, a town away from Akomadan, where he was scheduled to address a mini rally.
The President had no option but to stand in the open top of his vehicle to wave at the crowd.
The entire township of Akomadan went agog when he arrived there to rally support for Augustine Collins Ntim, the incumbent Member of Parliament for Offinso North, who doubles as Deputy Minister for Local Government; asking them to shun any intentions to vote ‘skirt and blouse’, and vote for the NPP alone on the ballot.
He later commissioned a new office of the Driver and Vehicular Licencing Authority (DVLA) in Akomadan.
The Offinso town, which has Dr. Isaac Opoku as its Parliamentary Candidate in the Offinso South Constituency, was vibrant when the President returned there to address a mini rally.
The Offinso Manhene, Nana Wiafe Akenten III, who under very strange and bizarre circumstance offered his traditional stool for then President Mahama to sit on in defiance of custom in 2016 was at the rally.
The President left Offinso for Nkwantakese in the Afigya Kwabre North Constituency where Collins Adomako Mensah is the NPP Parliamentary Candidate.
By Charles Takyi-Boadu