THE NEW Patriotic Party flagbearer, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has said that his promise of free second cycle education in Ghana is achievable and his government can fulfill it when he becomes the President of Ghana.
According to him, when President John Agyekum Kufuor promised the introduction of the Capitation Grant at the basic education level, and the National Health Insurance, other politicians who were scared to think outside the box insisted that they could not be achieved and yet the NPP government attained them.
Nana Addo was speaking at the St. BOSCO�s College of Education in the Navrongo Central constituency in the Upper East Region, where he addressed students and sympathizers of the NPP in the constituency as part of his listening tour of the region.
On his first day of the tour, Nana Addo met teeming supporters and functionaries of the party at various areas including, Manyoro, Yuwa, Mirigu, Natungu and Pungu, the hometown of Joseph Kofi Adda.
Nana Addo and his entourage called on the traditional leadership of Navrongo at the Navrongo Pio�s palace.
At St. BOSCO�s College of Education, Nana Addo said in the past, teachers were among groups that occupied the front row in society because governments ensured that they were well catered for and appreciated, to enable them to groom the future leaders of the country well.
�Whatever I promised is achievable in this country.
�Some of the country�s best brains who are members of our great New Patriotic Party have researched into the things I am promising and have done the calculations and we know how much it is going to cost us to implement them. We must spend a significant size of the country�s resources to ensure that majority of our people get educated to increase the literacy level of the country. Our education in Ghana has become so expensive and many are being cut out of the education net because families don�t have money to support their children in school,� Nana Addo said.
Nana Addo and other NPP functionaries in the Upper East region took advantage of the gathering to advise Ghanaians, especially those who identified themselves with the NPP, to ensure that they are registered and given valid ID cards when the Electoral Commission started the voters� registration exercise.
Touching on recent claims that he was inciting the youth to fight, Nana Addo promised Ghanaians that he was committed to a peaceful campaign season and elections in 2012.
�I will never endorse the use of arms to bring the NPP to power. It is never my style to foment trouble, because it is clear that the whole world, including Ghana endorses the use of the thumb to select a government and that is what I urge all Ghanaians, especially people who share our dream, to do.�
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