Tongo (UE), Sept 6, GNA- Mr. John Akolgo Tia, the incumbent National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament (MP) for the Talensi Constituency in the Upper East Region has inaugurated the party's umbrella youth club in the area and called on members to be resilient and work harder to win more people to the party. The clubs, with a 5,000-membership has 36 branches located within the Telensi Constituency in the Upper East Region. He commended the youth for taking the initiative to organise themselves into a viable group and said their action was a clear demonstration that their plights were worsened under the current government and so they could not withstand the sufferings and had to take their destiny into their own hands. He indicated that the youth have now come to the realization that they are the future leaders and therefore have an assigned responsibility to serve their communities and the nation with wholeheartedness and appealed to the constituency executives to support the activities of the club.

The MP, who had held the position since the beginning of the fourth republic further appealed to Ghanaian youth to vote for the NDC, saying the party had their welfare at heart and would be more focused in addressing their needs when given the mandate.

Mr. Tia explained that majority of the youth could hardly afford to pay the high fees for tertiary education and said the NDC would change the trend when it comes to power.

The MP said a lot of the policies being pursued by the NPP government, including the Free Compulsory Education and the National Health Insurance Scheme were the initiatives of the NDC and noted that when the party comes to power it would modify them by improving on most of the policies to the betterment of Ghanaians. He debunked the notion that the discovery of oil in Ghana was the brainchild of the NPP government which was claiming credit it and said most resources including gold, timber, oil among others, were found during Dr. Kwame Nkrumah's Regime.

He indicated that the NPP Government only continued from where the NDC stopped when they came into power and wondered why they could not share the credit with the NDC. The leader of the newly formed NDC Youth Clubs in the Constituency, Mr. Francis Asandoo, explained that the main objectives of the clubs were to champion the cause of the party to win both the Presidential and Parliamentary Elections in the area.

Mr. Asandoo indicated that the clubs in future would become a pressure group to advocate the interests of the people in the area. Mr. Hammond Nambulig Bukari, the Constituency Chairman of the party advised the youth clubs to eschew negative acts that wOULD foment trouble in the upcoming elections. 06 Sept. 08