NPP to undertake industrial revolution — Akufo-Addo
The 2016 presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party(NPP), Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has assured Ghanaians that when the party is voted into office in this year’s elections, “the Industrial revolution of Ghana is going to take place so that we can create jobs for the hundreds of thousands of young men and women in this country.”
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According to Nana Akufo-Addo, unless Ghana becomes industrialised with the goal of adding value to her primary products, the country could not create the necessary number of high-paying jobs that would enhance the living standards of Ghanaians.
He stressed that raw material-producing economies did not create prosperity for the masses, adding that the only way of ensuring access to prosperity was value addition activities in a transformed and a diversified modern economy.
According to a statement from the NPP, Nana Akufo-Addo made this known last Wednesday when he addressed a gathering at Kade at the commencement of his five-day tour of the Eastern Region.
Love for country
In the presence of party stalwarts from the Eastern Region, Nana Akufo-Addo noted that “a leader who has love for his or her country and has the vision or foresight of where he wants to take the country is the one who can help transform the lot of his people.”
He, therefore, reiterated his commitment towards the setting up one factory in each of the 216 districts, assuring the people that “we (in the NPP) are going to do it. It is those who do not believe in the ‘can-do-spirit’ of the Ghanaian who always try to say it cannot be done.”
Nana Akufo-Addo cited the case of Cote d’Ivoire, a country which emerged from civil war some six years ago that resulted in 100,000 displaced people and 3,000 deaths as a result of an election dispute, as evidence of how purposeful leadership could transform a country.
“Because of its good leader, Cote d’Ivoire is now the envy of her peers in West Africa. The number one investment destination in Africa now is Cote d’Ivoire. It has happened because they have a leader who has a vision and courage to move the country forward,” he said.
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The NPP flag bearer, therefore appealed to Ghanaians to give him the opportunity to do for Ghana what Alassane Ouattara was doing for Cote d’Ivoire.
“We have to change Ghana by building a new Ghana where the young people will have hope in the future of our country. This year, let us use our thumbs to change the fortunes of Ghana. I want the youth of our country to have hope that the poverty that has engulfed Ghana is not what God destined for us. I know if God gives us (the NPP) the opportunity, we will truly make Ghana the Black Star of Africa,” he said.
He assured the gathering that he would “assemble a first class government made up of men and women with experience and wisdom. Entrust Ghana into the hands of men and women who have done things with their lives, and you can be sure that when you put things in their care, they will take good care of them.”