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11th May, 2016

Press Release

DECISION TAKEN AT THE NATIONAL COUNCIL MEETING

The National Council of the Party met yesterday, May 10, 2017.
The meeting was chaired by Hon. Freddie Blay (acting National Chairman). In attendance
were the President Nana Akufo-Addo, the Vice President Bawumia and former President J.A.
Kufuor.
The meeting took the following decisions;
1. All Party Office holders (elected or appointed) who have second executive positions
in government should vacate their Party positions for substantive officers appointed to
fill in.
2. The meeting expressed strong disapproval and regret against the actions and
utterances of the minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection and the Northern
Regional Chairman. Even though the two apologized profusely, the meeting severely
reprimanded them and bonded them to be of good behaviour. They were also asked to
put their apologies into written statements.
3. The meeting fixed the Partys 2017 National Delegates Conference for the 25th to 27th
of August, 2017 in Cape Coast.
4. The meeting also approved the Partys hosting of the International Democratic
Unions (IDU) 2017 executive meeting in Accra from the 18th to 21st of June, 2017

The President also briefed the meeting on the government programmes on Planting for Food
and Jobs, Establishment of the Development Authorities, the One District, One Factory
Project, the Establishment of the Office of the Special Prosecutor and the sustenance of the
National Health Insurance Scheme.
The President reiterated that;
1. The Planting for Food and Jobs Program has already engaged 200,000 farmers and
would eventually engage 2.5million farmers. The Agric Extension Program has been
revived and 1,200 trained officers have been engaged.
 2. The One District, One Factory will kick off in 51 districts and launched in June 2017.
Government has also set aside a stimulus package of $100million to revive distressed
but strategic and viable Ghanaian industries.
3. The President affirmed Government will soon retire the huge debt of 1.2billion
owed the National Health Insurance Providers to this major social intervention on a
new course.
4. Legislation will be introduced in the next meeting of Parliament to establish the 3
development authorities to set the stage for the implementation of the $1m per
constituency per year development program.
5. Legislation will also be introduced in the next meeting of Parliament to set the Office
of the Special Prosecutor as a foremost public institution in the fight against
corruption.

The meeting ended with the assurance of the President that all remaining government
appointments will be completed by end of May 2017.

Signed
John Boadu
(General Secretary, Ag.)

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