The president, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has reassured the nation of his commitment to fulfill all promises made during the previous campaign towards further development of the nation.
He said one of the most important promises was the free senior high school education which will commence in September this year and was aimed at relieving parents of the burden of paying school fees and the burden to be taken over by the state.
Next, he said, was the revival of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) which was facing the shortage of cash and thus crippling the health delivery system in the country and equally reiterated the implementation of the one district, one factory and the planting for food and jobs policies to invigorate national desire for industrialization as well as food sufficiency.
Nana Akufo-Addo was addressing a congregation of the Global Evangelical Church at Ho Fiave as part of a week end visit to the Volta region which started last Saturday.
Entourage
He was accompanied by the Volta regional minister Dr Archibald Yao Letsa, Minister of Lands and Forestry, Mr John Peter Amewu, Minister of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Mr Kofi Dzamesi, Minister of Gender, Ms Otiko Afisa Djaba and Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr Pius Hadzide, vice chancellor of University of Health and Allied Sciences(UHAS) and managing director of Ghana Oil Company(GOIL), Mr Patrick Akorli, in addition to party executives at the regional and some constituency levels.
He introduced the newly confirmed Ho Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Mr Nelson Akorli and the Ho West District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Ernest Apau to the congregation and appealed to them to extend good will and support to them to enable them to perform their duties diligently to the expectations of the people.
Nana Akufo-Addo said he had met with the two vice chancellors of the University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS) and Ho Technical University (HOTU) to articulate their problems with the view to addressing identified challenges to strengthen the universities to deliver to expectation.
He thanked the people of the Volta region for their encouragement and support to him and the party and said he was more than prepared to develop the whole nation in accordance with the mandate offered him. He was later presented with a set of Bibles and a portrait of him in commemoration with his worshipping with the congregation.
The visit also coincided with the end a four-day delegate’s conference of the men’s ministry of the church.
Men’s delegates’ conference
Preaching the sermon, the synod clerk Reverend Raphael Mark Atti said love and truth were inseparable because it was only those who loved their neighbours that could tell them the truth.
He said they were free to choose any action in life but were not free to choose the consequences of the actions adding that the consequences were predetermined and therefore should be careful of the actions they take in life.
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