The Minister of Justice and Attorney General, Nana Akuffo Addo has said that the international community is now pointing to Ghana as a place in West Africa where there is rule of law and observance of fundamental human rights.

In Ghana today, he said, there are no political prisoners and there are no people with identification hair-cuts for people who speak their minds. Nana Akuffo Addo, who was addressing an NPP regional delegates’ congress at Koforidua at the weekend to elect new regional executive members for a three-year term, said that Ghana, under President Kufuor, is moving forward and will never go back again.

Nana Akuffo Addo urged the new executives to work as a team and bear in mind that they have a great task to lead the Party to face the NDC in the 2004 general elections. NDC, he said, is now initiating what the NPP is doing because they have now come to accept the democratic principles of the party.

He said under the able leadership of President Kufuor, the NPP government would change the face of Ghana to the admiration of everybody. Nana Akuffo Addo, who is the MP for Abuakwa, said when the government took the country to HIPC, little did the critics of the government know that much would be achieved and today every District is being given 1bn cedis for development.