Peace, Unity Are Foundations For Development

Mrs. Charlotte Osei, NCCE Chairman

The National Commission for Civic Education NCCE, District Director for Nanumba South, Mr. Abdulai B. Fuseini has stated that peace and unity are the foundations of democracy and development, without which there was no way Ghanaians could sustain the nation’s democracy in order to pursue any development agenda.

Mr. Abdulai made this statement when he was addressing an Inter– Party Youth Dialogue Committee meeting held at Wulensi, the Nanumba South District capital of the Northern Region of Ghana.

He said there was the need for Ghanaians to show to the World once again that democracy had always been part and parcel of the country’s traditional political system and that they had deep understanding of its ramifications.

Mr. Abdulai advised political parties and their followers to do away with divisive tendencies and rather concentrate on the challenges of poverty, disease and under development that had placed the district amongst the poorest in the country.

He advised the Committee and the various political parties to work hard to ensure that the district was violent–free before, during and after the upcoming bye–election and beyond, and desist from acts that would mar the peace of the area during and after the 2012 presidential and parliamentary elections.

The District Electoral Officer, Mr. Alex Kwabena Daliri who took the participants through the electoral processes, assured them that the Electoral Commission would live up to the expectation of Ghanaians in order to justify the confidence reposed in it.

He appealed to the political parties to cooperate, so that they organise a successful bye–election and subsequently the general elections come December 7 2012.

Meanwhile, the Nanumba South District Electoral Officer announced that the exhibition of the biometric register would begin next month August 2012 and called on all qualified voters who registered to avail themselves in order to check their names.