By Dennis Peprah
Nkrankwanta, (B/R), Oct. 05, GNA – The Bono Regional Youth Wing of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) has reaffirmed the party’s commitment to modernise agriculture and improve the socio-economic livelihoods of farmers, if it regains political power in the December 7, 2024, polls.
According to Mr Mustapha Omar Copson, the Deputy Bono Regional Youth Organiser of the NDC, the party put in place realistic strategies to execute policies and programmes as contained in its Election 2024 political party manifesto.
He was speaking in an interview with the Ghana News Agency (GNA) in Sunyani after the Wing undertook a three-day ‘retail campaign’ tour to some communities in the Dormaa Municipality and Dormaa West District of the Region.
Mr Copson said he led some of the executive members of the wing through the campaign which took them to Krakrom and Nkrankwanta in the Dormaa West and later interacted with artisanal workers including hairdressers and mechanics at Dormaa-Ahenkro in the Municipality.
The retail campaign tour, he explained, sought to reach out to and propagate and sensitize associations, artisanal workers and local communities about the content of the NDC manifesto.
That would empower the electorate to make informed decisions and vote for the former President John Dramani Mahama, the party flagbearer when they go to polls on December 7.
Mr Copson indicated another NDC government of the former President Mahama would prioritise agriculture as the backbone of the nation’s economy, saying Ghanaians would see the establishment of the farmers’ centres and the agro-industrial zones in the country.
The centres would enable farmers to access modern agriculture equipment to engage in commercial farming, produce more and thereby improve their socio-economic livelihoods and advance national food security as well.
Additionally, he assured the people that the next NDC government would resume and complete the abandoned Nkrankwanta-Krakrom-Adukrom road to facilitate the movement of the cocoa farmers and their economic activities.
Mr Copson said the cocoa industry would also be made more attractive under the next NDC government, saying farmers would receive incentive packages that would inspire them to expand their cocoa farms.
In a related interview, Mr Richard Nkwanayana, a member of the working committee of the Bono Regional NDC Youth Wing, reminded the electorate in the Dormaa West constituency not to only vote for former President Mahama, but also remember to the incumbent Member of Parliament, Mr Vincent Oppong Asamoah and vote to retain him too.
He said it was also time for the electorate in Dormaa Central to vote for Mr John Jack, the NDC Parliamentary Candidate, saying, “it is glaring that Ghanaians are ready to vote for and give political power to the NDC and we can’t afford to lose parliamentary seats”.
Mr Nkwanayana said the youth wing had intensified the electioneering to explain the party’s proposed 24-hour economy, the women’s bank and other policies to the masses at the grassroots level.
Other members of the campaign team included Mr Samuel Wuaku, the Bono Regional President of the NDC Pro-Forum, and Mrs Freda Ohene Addo, a member of the working committee of the youth wing.
Others included Mr Kwadwo Asare, the Dormaa Central Youth Organiser of the NDC, Mr Ernest Anin, the Dormaa East Youth Organiser of the NDC and Mr Sadick Din Mahdi, a member of the party.
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