Breku (C/R), Nov. 21, - With more
than three years to the 2020 polls, the Progressive People's Party (PPP), has
expressed its unwavering determination to convincingly win the Assin North Parliamentary seat.
The party has developed new
programmes for a paradigm shift in campaign strategies to entice the
electorates to vote out the current New Patriotic Party (NPP) Member of
Parliament, Anna Duruwaa
It has also overcome the 2016
electoral defeat and working at re-awakening the grassroots to buy into the new
vision of the party.
Speaking at an affirmation of the
Assin North Constituency Party executives at Breku in the Central Region, Mr
Isaac Manu, the 2016 parliamentary Candidate said "the PPP is poised and ready
to win the seat convincingly in the 2020 general election.
In all, 21 new executives were
selected and confirmed as stated in the party's constitution and supervised by
the Electoral Commission (EC).
The former Parliamentary
Candidate accused the current MP of not doing much to reduce the plights of the
people over the increasing inadequate infrastructural facilities, health care,
sanitation, unemployment and poverty
To reverse the trend, he observed
that the party would encourage and empower women with resources, equip them
with skills and create jobs to become the key driving forces in the fight
against hunger and poverty.
“What women in the constituency
need is not only micro support but increased mechanisation, technological
innovation, education and skills development."
They would intensify their
financial inclusion in agribusiness and empower them with knowledge and skills
to use modern technologies in agribusiness and agricultural value chains”, he
said.
On graduate unemployment, he
indicated that they would be encouraged and assisted to undergo internship in
computer hardware and software, leadership and entrepreneurship training free
of charge.
Mr Manu added that the programme
was aimed at equipping the Youth with employable and entrepreneurial skills to
enable them secure jobs or start their own small businesses, instead of going
round looking for non-existent jobs.
He explained that they would be
given practical and career-oriented, and the model involved getting students,
especially the youth, to develop personal business plans.
He indicated that the
beneficiaries would receive financial literacy education, counseling and access
to business development services.
Mr. Awusi encouraged
beneficiaries of the Youth Empowerment Programme who had already benefited from
it to utilise the knowledge and skills they had acquired from the training to
better their lot and that of others in the society.
To achieve the renewed vision of
the party, he called for the unflinching support of all for the new executives
of the party to work together to that effect.
Nevertheless, he lauded
government’s plan to roll out a ‘planting for food and jobs’ programme, in a
bid to promote food security in the country.
According to him, the initiative
would help solve some of the challenges be-devilling the agricultural sector
such as the importation of unwholesome products.
The framework for the policy is
to establish a commercially viable private limited liability company with
growth potential in the district with the objective of promoting economic
growth and creating jobs for the citizenry.
Mr Manu however, commended the
government for the initiative, saying the policy fitted into a development
strategy that sought its intervention and facilitation for economic
development.
He encouraged the private sector
to take advantage of the opportunity because it was a laudable initiative and
had all the hallmark of success.
He urged the government to ensure
that there were reliable supply of industrial infrastructure, access to
appropriate technology, supply of raw materials, access to medium to long term
goals and a good tax regime for the policy to succeed.
GNA
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