One of the two Deputy Chiefs of Staff (DCoS), Alhaji Fawaz Aliu, has started an initiative to explain the government’s policies and programmes to party people at the grassroots.
This was when he visited some youth groups and elders of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) in the Northern regional capital of Tamale over the weekend.
The purpose of the visit was to engage with the party in Tamale, where he hails from, to share with them the numerous steps the President and his government is taking to address the challenges confronting the nation.
Some of the groups and places he visited included the Kandaha Base, Popular Office NPP Group, Young Liberals, Big Six, Zobgeli, and the Same Minds group at Aboabo.
Issues that came up during his interactions with them centered on the welfare of party youth, debate on the e-levy and its importance to addressing the financial challenges of the country, the need for unity and discipline in the party to break the 8year circle, and President Akufo-Addo’s achievements and good vision for the North.
Most of the groups visited expressed appreciation to Fawaz who they considered one of their own for taking time to visit to explain the various government interventions to them.
For them, that was more than money can buy, and thus pledged to continue supporting the government to enable it to implement its good plans for the country.
They also urged other government appointees to emulate the proactive initiative of the DCoS by continually engaging the grassroots of the party.
The Deputy Chief of Staff also took the opportunity to visit some elders of the party and opinion leaders in Tamale, including the Northern Regional Minister.
They could not but thank Fawaz for the initiative, describing it as timely, coming on the heels of increasing tensions and agitations within the party arising from the opening of nominations for the election of polling station executives.
By Charles Takyi-Boadu, Presidential Correspondent