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Akufo-Addo addressing geographic exclusion from national development – Bawumia

August 8, 2018
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The policies and programmes being implemented by the Nana Akufo-Addo government are meant to address the age-long issues of geographical exclusion from national development, the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has indicated. According to Vice President Bawumia, these policies, such as the Free Senior High School, national roll-out of the Ghana Card, Digital Property Addressing System and the establishment of the three Development Authorities are designed to ensure that the challenges militating against nationwide access to development opportunities are addressed in a holistic manner and benefit all. Dr Mahamudu Bawumia outlined the rationale behind the policies of the Nana Akufo-Addo government when he addressed the ongoing 2018 Annual Conference of the Ghana Geographers Association and the Geography Teachers Association at the North Campus of the University of Education, Winneba on Wednesday 8th August, 2018. It is under the theme “Geography – The Missing Link in Ghana’s Development Agenda?” “Over the past 19 months that the Government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been in power, we have been aware that Ghana has no reason not to develop. For this reason we have taken a number of giant steps to develop Ghana and in all cases the aim is to address the challenge of geographical exclusion from development,” the Vice President stated. “If you look at the sort of policies that Government has been implementing in the last 19 months, at the heart of these policies is the attempt to make sure that regardless of where you are in this geographical space called Ghana, you will be included in the development of this country. That is really fundamental, and if you want to understand what the President and the government is doing, it is in the whole area of inclusion.” The Free Senior High School programme, for instance, is meant to ensure equitable utilization of the national cake – “meaning wherever you live, we must provide you the opportunity to free yourself from poverty through education. We see education as key to success and whether you live in rural or urban areas, whether poor or rich, the country owes you the responsibility to get you educated,” Vice President Bawumia explained. The Vice President explained that having a unique national ID card is a prerequisite for any nation aspiring to modernise, and the Akufo-Addo government is determined to ensure Ghana takes her place in the comity of developed nations. “There is no modern society where you don’t have individuals who work within or live within their geographical area and are not uniquely identified. If you take away the system of unique identification, those economies will fall apart. That is why in Ghana we have began the process of issuing a unique ID card for Ghana. But that is just the beginning. “Registering and having the Ghana Card defines the territorial integrity, safety and security of Ghana. President Nana Akufo-Addo has a firm belief that every Ghanaian, living in the city or village, rich or poor neighbourhood must be known, must be uniquely identified to speed up our development.” Vice President Bawumia indicated that the creation of new Regions and regionalization for development is in direct response to the complaint by some Ghanaian citizens about how far away they are from their respective regional capitals, hence are deprived of their fair share of the national cake due to their location. “Some say they live in ‘overseas’. Government’s effort is to ensure equitable regional development and therefore bringing Government to the people is vital. We are interested in the creation of new regions to bring balanced development. Again, politically and socially defined Development Agencies and Institutions are being reorganized into Geographic Regional Development Agencies, namely Northern, Middle-belt and Coastal Development Authorities.” Other initiatives, such as the land digitisation agenda, the One Village One Dam, One District One Factory, and the Planting for Food and Jobs are all meant to create jobs, ensure food security, and address the mass migration of unemployed youth to cities in search of non-existing jobs, he added. “They are all designed to kill many birds with one stone: create jobs, reduce migration to big cities, create balanced spatial development, improve local economies, and make use of regional potentials.” Source: 3news.com | Ghana]]>

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