Accra, Jan 8, - Felix Nii Mensah
Annang-La, Tema Metropolitan Chief Executiv has appealed to old student
Associations to leverage their childhood relations to contribute to the growth
and development of the country.
“You may belong to different
political parties or affiliations and varied geographical locations, but your
ultimate goal is to use the schooldays friendship to develop and support future
generations.”
Nii Annang-La gave the advice in
a speech read on his behalf by Mr Stephen Ashitey Adjei, popularly known as
Moshake during a get-together of the Alumni of the Manhean Junior High school
in the Metropolis.
The get together was organized
for them to fraternize and come out with ideas to support their Alma Mater and
to generate developmental issues for the entire country.
Giving the shining example of
President Akufo-Addo and late President Mills he said ‘Ghana’s democracy has a
rich heritage of tolerance and brotherliness and that longstanding friendship
that existed between President Nana Akufo-Addo and late President Evans
Atta-Mills is a testimony of leveraging friendships from school to adulthood.’
In spite of their political
differences, he observed that the two leaders had remained tight friends until
the death of President Mills in 2012.
“If all of us can look at
politics for what it is, a market place of ideas, the way His Excellency
President Akufo-Addo and late President Mills saw it to be, there would never
be any need for acrimony,” the Tema MCE said.
The MCE stressed the importance
of keeping friendships that blossom during childhood schooldays, as such
friendships transform into help networks and bigger platforms that could
generate development policies and programmes.
“Like the example that I gave
about former President Mills and current President Akufo-Addo, you realise that
no matter how hot the political debate was, the two leaders never allowed it to
degenerate into rancour. They valued their friendship above politics. This
friendship had been started during their schooldays at Legon and cultivated
with common interests of the two, especially sports,” the Tema MCE said.
He added that such exemplary
friendship between the two leaders must be encouraged and emulated by all
Ghanaians.
Mr Teye Mensah, a Lecturer at the
Datalink University Commended the MCE for his goodwill message
GNA
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