CPP TO REDESIGN, REDEVELOP WESTERN REGION — NDUOM (PAGE 14)

The Presidential candidate of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom, has promised the chiefs and people of the Western Region that when the party is voted into power it will transform the respective communities into modern ones.
He said the communities would have proper waste management systems, public parks, libraries, schools, good drinking water and health facilities.
He said the road network would be rebuilt to first class standards that befit the status of a resource-rich area of the country.
Dr Nduom made the promise at a meeting with the chiefs of Ahanta, at Essikadu as part of his campaign tour of the Western Region.
He emphasised that a CPP government would ensure that bad and dangerous roads became a thing of the past in the region, adding “From Elubo to Enchi to Dadieso and from Samreboi to Prestea and other points would be built a first class road system.’’
“On the other hand, old towns and cities such as Tarkwa, Prestea, Takoradi, Sekondi, Enchi, Dadieso, Samreboi, Asankragua, Axim and others will be redesigned and rebuilt, while new ones will be planned and built to suit the 21st Century,” he explained.
Dr Nduom said if elected his government would completely restructure the railway system and expand it to reach the northern part of the country.
This, he explained, would include the implementation of light rail systems in the major cities so that Sekondi and Takoradi would become active once again.
In the area of education, he said the CPP if elected, would reintroduce free, compulsory education from kindergarten to senior high school and make it continuous so that every child in the country could get a good education.
“We intend also to build complete school compounds that have classrooms, toilet and kitchen facilities, libraries, computer and science laboratories, sports facilities and houses for the teachers in every community,” he added, saying “Children sitting under trees and pretending to be in school will be a thing of the past”.
According to the CPP flag bearer, his government would ensure that proper and modern fish landing facilities existed with complete fishing harbours that had decent places for women to process fish as well as a boat repair centre.
“We will also act with a sense of urgency to protect our fishing grounds from the illegal activities of the big, and mostly foreign fishing trawlers,” he said, adding “We plan to support our local fishermen to acquire bigger and modern fishing trawlers so that we can develop big business people in the industry”.
Dr Nduom said the CPP would re-develop Nkroful and Half Assini to befit the memory of the founder of the nation, Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, and turn them into international tourist sites.