The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has ended his five-day Western Regional campaign tour with a promise to bring back the defunct Black Star Shipping Line.
Addressing residents of New Takoradi, the former President said the NDC plans to revamp most of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah’s abandoned Industries and will resurrect the Black Star Shipping line to help create jobs.
“If you check the NDC’s peoples manifesto, we have stated clearly that the Black Star Shipping line that Dr. Kwame Nkrumah established created a lot of jobs for the Ghanaian youth and seamen. So that NDC will bring back that Black Star line to help create jobs.”
The NDC Flagbearer blamed the NPP for its failure to implement the planned construction of a new regional hospital for Western Region.
He, therefore, assured of his determination to give the Western Region a new regional hospital.
“We were in the process to build a new regional hospital for Western Region. The first plot of Land we secured for the hospital project had issues of litigation so we had to leave it for the other. The second plot we secured also had the gas pipeline also passing through.”
“It is in the mix of that that we had to leave government. Our expectation was that the NPP government would continue to implement the construction of the new regional hospital but they didn’t.”
Mr. Mahama’s five-day tour of the Western Region took him to all the 17 constituencies of the region.
His message focused on improving roads infrastructure, the cocoa industry, Artisanal small scale mining, agro-processing and general job creation.
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