Jasikan, May 16, GNA - Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said investing in education and health would be major priority sectors if voted into power.

He said investment towards expanding the frontiers of education and health stimulates growth in an economy. Speaking at a durbar of chiefs and people of the Buem Constituency

at Jasikan during a tour of the Volta Region, Nana Akufo-Addo said under the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) all minors under 18 years would be registered free.

He said the 42 million pound facility secured by President Kufuor in his recent visit to the UK to provide free medical care for pregnant women, attested to Government's resolved to improve health care delivery.

Addressing similar durbars in the Biakoye, North and South Dayi constituencies and Juapong, Nana Akufo-Addo said the Capitation Grant and the School Feeding Programme were major initiatives in the education sector, which his government would consolidate.

Drawing some lessons from Bible, Mr Osafo Maafo, former Minister of Education, Science and Sports likened President Kufuor and Nana Akufo-Addo to Moses and Joshua respectively saying "Nana Akufo-Addo's take-over and victory in the 2008 elections is not in doubt."

He said the "political balance sheet" favoured the NPP, which out-performed the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and that "attempts not to compare the two regimes is rather a serious sign of mediocrity". Mr Allan Kyeremateng, the runner-up to Nana Akufo Addo in the party's presidential race, said job creation was about establishing factories to mop up the idle labour force toward constructive enterprises.

Earlier Nana Osei Kofi Boakye, Regent of Jasikan commended government for being non-partisan in the distribution of development projects and especially the up-grading of the Bueman Senior High School.

He requested the creation of a second region from the Volta Region.