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NPP reveals how much it will spend on project

The flagbearer during a tour of the Upper East region said that he will set up an irrigation dam in every village in the northern part of Ghana should he win the 7 December polls.

 

According to him, his ‘1 village, 1 dam’ policy is to help Ghana produce more food for its citizens and for export to the sub-region.

“You have been hearing me talking about 1-District-1-Factory. As far as this part of the country is concerned, I even want to go further and talk about ‘1-village-1-dam’, to make sure that in every village, we have a functioning dam to support agriculture. If Ghana’s agriculture is working well, the nation is capable of feeding West Africa”, he indicated.

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The NPP flagbearer made this known while speaking to the Bolgatanga Traditional Council in the Upper East Region about his plans for Ghana’s agriculture under his government.

The government has since described the policy as nothing new, as it is already implementing a similar project.

Some opposition groups still argue that the ‘1-village-1-dam’ policy is not feasible.

But the chairman of the NPP’s campaign committee in charge of agriculture, Dr. Afriyie Akoto Osei has rubbished those claims.

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He told Accra-based 3FM that “55 million will be more enough to supply every village in the Savannah zone with a dam.”

Akufo-Addo’s latest promise follows his earlier ‘1 district, 1 factory’ promise which he made a few months ago.

According to him, the setting up of these factories across the country will, not only, commence the rapid industrialization of Ghana’s economy, but also, will result in the creation of hundreds of thousands of jobs needed by the masses of unemployed Ghanaian youth.

Many opposition groups including the Progressive Peoples Party (PPP) have however punched holes into the policy, saying the NPP flag bearer has failed to outline how he intends to create jobs with the policy.

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