Ayerede (B/A), Jan. 9, GNA - Madam Rose Appau, Assembly Member for Ayerede in Nkoranza South District of Brong Ahafo, has urged the youth of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the New Patriotic Party (NPP) to bury their differences and forge ahead in unity towards the development of the country. She was addressing a large crowd of youth from Asuano, Nyamebekyere, Nkyinkamamu, Dimango, Grumakrom and Kramokrom at an entertainment show organised by the NDC to celebrate the party's assumption to power.

The Assembly member advised the people to regard each other as "his brother's keeper" and not to allow partisan politics to divide them, as that could adversely affect their developmental efforts. Madam Appau commended the people for the decent and peaceful manner in which they conducted themselves during the last elections and urged them to maintain that spirit for the accelerated development of the area.

"The majority and minority in Parliament will collaborate and support our new President (Atta Mills) to move the nation forward and the youth in the various parties must do same," she stressed. The Assembly Member advised the youth to be law-abiding and to respect persons in authority, so that they would receive God's blessings to become responsible and resourceful adults.

Madam Appau called on the people to actively participate in communal labour activities and to help initiate development programmes in order to attract support from the government and NGOs. Mr Adonteng Gyimadu, NDC Zonal Chairman, advised the youth of the NPP and the NDC to forgive any offence committed during the campaigning period and live peacefully as one people in the area. "The immediate past President Mr John Agyekum Kufuor and his predecessor, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings, as well as the current President John Evans Atta Mills were all at the inauguration ceremony at the Independence Square and this is the spirit that all other Ghanaians must exhibit," he emphasized.