President John Dramani Mahama is expected to cut the sod in
the first week of December for work to start on the expansion of the
Takoradi Harbour, Mr Felix Kwakye Ofosu, a Deputy Minister for
Information and Media Relations, said on Thursday.
He said the expansion programme was in line with government’s
decision to step up development of infrastructure. Mr Kwakye-Ofosu said
this at the daily press briefing at the Flagstaff House, Kanda. He said
apart from the Takoradi port expansion, the government would also build
more schools, roads and railways to provide alternative means of
livelihood for Ghanaians irrespective of their geographical location.
He said the President had lined up a number of visits to the regions
where he is expected to thank the people for their support in the 2012
general election and also inspect and inaugurate projects in line with
the better Ghana agenda.
On governance, the Deputy Minister said President Mahama was
satisfied with the willingness of Ghanaians to engage government in its
development agenda and urged them to criticize constructively to enable
government to chart the best development path of development.
“The President is interested in feedback and will therefore be happy to hear from people through the social media,” the Deputy Minister added. Mr Kwakye-Ofosu
said much as government welcomed constructive criticism, it would
however not countenance any intentional insults and other utterances
that would undermine the peace and unity the country was currently
enjoying.
He urged all Ghanaians to be stakeholders in the governance process
of the country as democracy involves the engagement of all and sundry in
the country. The President last week visited the Upper East and Upper
West Regions where among other engagements cut sod for the commencement
of work on some development projects, inspected on-going ones and
inaugurated the completed projects.
Source: GNA, November 29, 2013
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