Mills Weeps For Anlo

FLAGBEARER of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Prof John Evans Atta Mills, has expressed concern about the chieftaincy dispute at Anlo which claimed some lives and destroyed properties.

He said most of the victims of the conflict were innocent, and that people who could have lived to help in the socio-economic development of the country had perished because some of their leaders refused to be honest.

Prof. Mills therefore called on government to do everything possible to ensure that peace and tranquility returned to the area.

The NDC flagbearer expressed the concern when he took his house-to-house campaign to Komenda in the Komenda- Edina-Eguafo-Abrem (KEEA) District of the Central Region on Monday.

He sought to ascertain some of the problems confronting people in the area and how best they could be assisted when his party gets the nod to lead the country in 2009.

The law professor maintained that God had blessed this country with a lot of natural resources but because most of our leaders lacked integrity, Ghanaians continued to suffer, creating room for all kinds of negative tendencies such as armed robbery.

He noted that NDC was the only party that could solve the problems confronting the country, and advised Ghanaians to vote for the party in the 2008 general elections.

He asked fishermen in the area to see NDC as the party that could restore hope to them since the NDC government was ready to deal drastically with unscrupulous people who stole premix fuel monies.

“An ambassador of premix fuel, one Mr Kojo Mbir, has written a book on how people have been wasting premix fuel money in the region, a copy of which has been presented to President Kufuor.

But wait and see whether something good will come out of it, because they are using the stolen premix money to do politics,” he stressed.

For her part, the National Women's Organizer, Madam Ama Benyiwa Doe, emphasised the need for the people in the Central Region to emulate the Ashanti Region and vote for their own man during the 2008 elections.

She advised them not to allow themselves to be swayed by the compliments of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), stressing that they must vote for their countryman in next year's elections because “even President Bush of USA won heavily in Florida, his home”.

Madam Benyiwa Doe cautioned the people of Komenda to be careful of politicians who would try using money to buy votes during this period, asking them to judge every politician by his words.

Prof. Mills and his entourage had earlier paid a courtesy call on the Omanhen of Komenda Traditional Area, Nana Kwodwo Kru II.

From Sarah Afful, Komenda