President Nana Akufo-Addo
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has assured Ghanaians that the resources and wealth of the nation will not find their way into his pockets, but will be used for the rapid development of the country.
According to President Akufo-Addo, “We are going to ensure that all the money that is mobilised by government is spent in dealing with the issues that concern our people, and that they do not find their way into my pockets or the pockets of my ministers. We are not going to allow that to happen again.”
He made this assertion at a grand durbar of chiefs at Bolgatanga, the Upper East Region, on Wednesday, 4th October, as he began his two-day tour of the region.
Addressing the concerns of the chiefs and people of the region regarding the deplorable nature of the roads, President Akufo-Addo indicated, “Everywhere I go, the first thing people ask me is about their roads.
“So this unprecedented infrastructural development trumpeted by my opponent in the last election could not have been about roads, it must have been something else. You yourselves have pointed out how very poor your road network is. We are going to work on it.”
Touching on the rehabilitation and restoration of the country’s railway network, President Akufo-Addo bemoaned it’s “one of the saddest and most egregious decisions that was made; which was to allow the railway network inherited from colonial times to get into disuse.
“It is absolutely essential for the rapid development of our country that we connect our country by railway, and we are going to do it. Very soon, the Minister for Railways is going to roll out, before the country, the exact plan that we have to redevelop our railway infrastructure. You can be sure that you, the people of the Upper East Region, will be right in the centre of those considerations for railway development.”
Reiterating his commitment to ensuring access to electricity in all parts of the country – and with the region being the part of the country with the least access to electricity supply (60%) – the president stated that it is necessary that every effort is made to accelerate the provision of electricity.
Nana Addo said this year and next year a total of 660 communities in the Upper East Region would be connected to the electricity grid.
On a request made by the chiefs for the revamping of the Pwalugu Tomato Factory and the Zuarungu Meat Factory, President Akufo-Addo assured that these two factories were receiving urgent attention.