GOVT SET UP WESTERN CORRIDOR DEV. AUTHORITY

Story: Kweku Tsen & Moses Dotsey Aklorbortu, Takoradi
The President, Professor John Evans Atta Mills yesterday addressed vast crowd and chiefs and people of the Western Region at the Golden Jubilee Park at Takoradi and Assured that the government will shirk its responsibilities to improve their socio-economic and material conditions.
He explained that the government was duty bound to fulfill the social contract that it had entered into with the people to ensure the qualitative improvement in their living conditions.
President Mills, who is on a two-day tour of the region pointed out that the government, would definitely fulfill its electoral promises before the end of its term.
The visit would afford President Mills the chance to assess at first hand the social and economic plight of the people and also appreciate the problems affecting their well-being.
President Mills was also expected to outline the policies government intended to address distortions in the economy and alleviate the sufferings of the broad masses of the people.
The thanked the people of the Western Region for voting massively for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) during the 2008 presidential and parliamentary elections.
President Mills remarked that the massive endorsement of the NDC by the people implied that “you have the confidence in the NDC to deliver you from the economic predicament brought about by previous government.”
He said being aware of the expectation of the people, the government would not go to sleep, but work harder to ensure the remarkable transformation in the lives on the people.
President Mills briefed the vociferous gathering about the difficult economic situation that the NDC inherited upon assumption of political office.
President Mills said the economy faced very adverse challenges which needed massive overhaul and capital injection to revamp it.
He said called on the people to exercise patient while the government continued to implement the corrective measures to salvage the economy and improve the lots of the people.
Prior the arrival of the President, the crowd had gathered at the Jubilee Park and the chiefs from very far and near were seated in their numbers to welcome the president.
It was a difficult situation driving to the Jubilee Park as massive crowd rushing the welcome the President the halted traffic on the routes to the ground.
That left the president with no option than to open the top of his vehicle to respond to crowd. The slim convoy of the president had to drive at a tortoise pace until it finally arrived at the park for the commencement of the programme.
Colorfully, the chiefs from the Western Regional House of Chiefs, led by its president Awulae Attibrukusu and other members of the house as well as other prominent members of the society and business community welcomed the president.
The president went round to exchange pleasantries with the chiefs while those, who made it to the ground gave the police and other security agencies tough time as every one ones to catch a glimpse of the president.
From the Western Regional capital, the President would continue to the nother part of the region then to the Brong Ahafo Region.