President Mahama says focused in fixing nation’s challenges
President John Dramani Mahama on Friday gave the assurance that government would in the next few months fix all the challenges that had confronted his administration from the beginning of the year.
He said the economy had been resilient in the face of those challenges and government was tapping all necessary avenues to restore stable long-term electricity supply to the citizenry.
President Mahama gave this assurance when the Asantehene, Nana Otumfuo Osei Tutu II, led a high powered Asanteman delegation of chiefs to call on the President at Flagstaff House, Kanda.
The Asantehene who was in Accra at the invitation of the National Commission on Civic Education (NCCE) to deliver a lecture on democracy took time off to pay a courtesy call on President Mahama so they could deliberate on some burning issues in the country, particularly relating to the current skirmishes in Kumasi and other parts of that Region.
President Mahama said while he was meeting chief security heads and traditional chiefs to deliberate on ways of solving the Kumasi killings, government was also making conscious efforts to re-visit the Dagbon crisis that had been stalled for sometime.
He appealed to Otumfuo to take a centre stage in resolving the Dagbon chieftaincy conflict when peace talks resume.
The President called for cooperation from all parties in the crisis and re-assured that government would fix all the challenges of the country to create an atmosphere of peace and unity that would advance the development of the country.
“I want to encourage all Ghanaians to cooperate for the future is bright. Ghana belongs to everyone irrespective of our ethnic, socio-political affiliations,” President Mahama added.
Otumfuo Osei Tutu said he would continue to accord every leader of the country the respect they deserve, adding “I know that the election issues are in court, but until the court rules otherwise, we know that President Mahama is our leader.”
He appealed to the Ministers and other government officials to collaborate effectively on issues that would accelerated national development.
Source: GNA