NDC TO WIN AKWATIA SEAT — OFOSU-AMPOFO (PAGE 15)

THE NATIONAL Organiser of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Mr Samuel Ofosu-Ampofo, has said that the party will definitely win the Akwatia Constituency seat in the re-run scheduled for August 18.
That, he said, would enable the party to increase its parliamentary seats to make it easy for the government to carry out its development agenda to make life worth living for all Ghanaians.
Mr Ofosu-Ampofo, who is also the Eastern Regional Minister, gave the assurance when he addressed executive members of the NDC in Koforidua last Monday.
The meeting was to re-activate the NDC and strategise for both the Akwatia re-run and the 2012 elections.
The Akwatia Constituency re-run has become necessary because the 2008 parliamentary election in that constituency was disrupted, making it impossible to declare a winner.
According to Mr Ofosu-Ampofo, although the NDC had done everything to tilt the balance between it and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to enable the NDC to win the Akwatia seat, the regional executive should be in the constituency before the election to propagate the good policies of the NDC in order to win more people to its side to convincingly win the seat.
“The NDC is currently at the battle front and we will marshal all resources to win the battle, come August 18.
“We are leaving no stone unturned, so all of us should sacrifice by going to the area to drum home the good things of the government, so that they vote for the NDC to carry the day,” he stated.
Mr Ofosu-Ampofo, who stated that the party had not forgotten its foot soldiers, asked the party’s executive to recognise the tremendous contributions of the foot soldiers so that they would be assisted, adding, “We will never abandon the foot soldiers.”
On the country’s present economic situation, he said although the NDC inherited a huge debt from the previous NPP Administration, the government was doing its best to resuscitate the economy, but pointed out that its good policies were being hampered by saboteurs such as some self-style market queens who had been preventing others from selling at some of the markets just to create hardship for others.
 Mr Ofosu Ampofo, who spoke on issues on the environment said the government would not sit by for water sources to be polluted by “galamsey” operators, but appealed to the operators to go for the required licenses so that they would operate within the approved regulations.
He also assured all those who had something to do with the Ghana Consolidated Diamonds (GCD) at Akwatia that every effort was being made to revamp it.
Earlier, Mr D.S. Boateng, Ghana’s ambassador-designate to Cuba, thanked members of the party in the region for their support as well as that of President John Evans Atta Mills for his appointment.