NPP best choice for December elections — O. B. Amoah

THE New Patriotic Party (NPP) parliamentary aspirant for Aburi-Nsawam, Mr O. B. Amoah, has endorsed the NPP as the best choice for the country in the December elections.
He said the best way Ghanaians could distinguish between a bad government and a good one was to make a comparison of their policies, especially those that had had a direct bearing on their lives.
Mr Amoah, who is also a Deputy Minister for Education, Science and Sports, was addressing party supporters at Adoagyiri in the Eastern Region as part of the regional tour of Mrs Rebecca Akufo-Addo, the wife of the NPP flag bearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
He said although the economy was in a bad shape when the NPP took over in 2001, the Kufuor Administration had been able to turn it around and come up with policies that had had a positive impact on the ordinary Ghanaian.
He explained that but for the good policies and the farsightedness of the NPP administration, the recent unprecedented oil price hikes and food crises that hit the world would have had dire consequences for the Ghanaian economy.
He said although a barrel of crude oil went up as high as $143, the highest in history, there had been no shortage of petroleum products in Ghana, adding that even when the citizens of other nations were demonstrating as a result of shortages and high prices of food, Ghana was stable.
Mr Amoah indicated that through prudent management of the economy, the government had been able to institute programmes such as the Capitation Grant, the School Feeding Programme and free transport for school pupils, the National Health Insurance Scheme, among others.
He said those policies were targeted at ensuring that the burden on Ghanaians was reduced and that they were offered the opportunity to use their resources on other equally important things.
He urged Ghanaians not to forget about the bad human rights situation in Ghana during the NDC era but juxtapose it against the respect for human rights, the rule of law and freedom of the individual and the media being enjoyed in the country during the two-term Presidency of President Kufuor.
He threw a challenge to the parliamentary aspirants of the other political parties in the constituency, especially the NDC, to meet him on a debate on the records of the NPP and the NDC.
Mr Amoah urged the people to vote massively for him as MP and Nana Akufo-Addo as President to allow the NPP to continue with its good works.
He advised the people not to allow themselves to be coaxed by the NDC to vote for it, adding that voting for the NDC would mean reversing all those good policies.
Mrs Akufo-Addo, for her part, urged the people to go about their politicking in a peaceful and non-violent manner to ensure that the security of the state was not breached, while keeping lives and limbs intact.
She urged the women to be ambassadors of the NPP anywhere they found themselves and explain to their families, friends and colleagues the need to come out in their numbers to vote massively for the NPP flag bearer.