The president disclosed this after some chiefs had raised a number of issues with him which required prompt attention.
Addressing the members of the Upper East Regional House of Chiefs when they paid a courtesy call on him at the Flagstaff House, the president said: “I wasn’t a lucky son; I didn’t inherit from my father a lot of money.”
“I inherited an empty treasury; so we are now trying to build up the treasury.”
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The president disclosed this after the chiefs had raised a number of issues with him which required prompt attention.
Nana Akufo-Addo said that in spite of the situation he finds himself, he is “determined to make sure that the teachings of the Constitution which require an even spread of the distribution of the nation’s resources and development, are maintained in my time so that even within these constrained public finances, there is an even spread of development across the country.”
“We don’t want to be moving forward in Ghana leaving anybody behind; we all want to move together along a broad front.”
He further indicated that the issue of the Upper East Region was of great concern to him and his government.
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He said: “after the Volta Region, it [Upper East] is the weakest region for the NPP; so we need to do some extra work there to bring the region on board.”
The president assured that in the days ahead, “A lot of the things have to be priorities; we’ll prioritize the things that have to be done immediately and others in the course of time.”
