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[ 2016-10-27 ]

NPP to usher in Golden Age of rural development – Bawumia
Vice Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic
Party (NPP) Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said that the
next NPP government will usher in a Golden Age of
Rural development and that rural and deprived
communities will see development like they have
never seen before under a Nana Akufo-Addo
government.

Dr. Bawumia explained that this will be made
possible due to the well-thought-out policies and
vision of the NPP aimed at spreading development
and growth all across the country, and especially
the policy to reallocate $275 million of the
capital expenditure budget to the 275
constituencies directly for development.

Speaking in Chereponi in the Northern Region on
Monday, Dr. Bawumia said: “We have major plans
for this country. We are going to introduce new
policies that are going to grow this economy,
create jobs and bring development to the North and
to Ghana as a whole. We are going to introduce a
Golden Age of Rural Development in Ghana.

This is going to be an age where constituencies
like Chereponi are going to see development like
they have never seen before since independence”,
he stated.

Explaining the rationale behind the Infrastructure
for Poverty Eradication Programme (IPEP), Dr.
Bawumia indicated that the initiative was designed
to put the resources and power in the hands of the
masses to address basic developmental issues like
access to water for drinking and farming,
sanitation facilities, motorable roads that plague
rural and deprived communities.

“We are going to make sure that money for
development does not stay in the centre but comes
to Chereponi. From next year, for the first time
in the history of Ghana, we are going to take a
part of our Capital expenditure budget, we are
going to reallocate a part of it to every
constituency in Ghana, every constituency will get
their share. From next year, every year without
fail Insha Allah, Chereponi Constituency will get
GH¢ 4million or ¢40 billion; every constituency
in Ghana will get GHC 4 million, which is the
equivalent of $1million for your own development.

“You are no longer going to wait for Accra
before you get money to solve your basic problems
or for a government to come and say they are using
the money to rear Guinea Fowls that have run away
to Burkina Faso. And it is not like we are going
to come in and look for the money. The money is
already sitting there. We are going to take it and
bring it to Chereponi Constituency and other
constituencies,” he added.

Speaking on the previous day in Saboba, Dr.
Bawumia stated that the new age of Rural
development follows in the stead of the vision and
policies of the Progress Party government led by
Dr. Kofi Abrefa Busia in the early 1970s which
focused on development in the rural and deprived
communities of Ghana.

“You are going to see a major transformation. We
are going to bring about a Golden age of rural
development in Ghana. Our development budget for
the last 59 years have been skewed and that is why
there is so much underdevelopment. This is why we
have to bring about a new age, a golden age of
rural development picking up from where Prime
Minister Busia’s government left off, where we
had a focus on Rural Development; Nana Akufo-Addo
will also focus on Rural Development,” he said.

Dr. Bawumia explained that with the GH¢4 million
to be allocated to each constituency annually,
local solutions will be found to local problems.

Source - Starrfm



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