The governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) has stated that it is committed to fulfilling its promises made to the people of the North East Region.

Lawyer Sulley Sambian who is the party’s Regional Secretary insists that nothing has changed as far as the promises made by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo are concerned; adding that his government ably supported by Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is determined to prosecute them to the admiration of residents.

Addressing a press conference covered by MyNewsGh.com in Walewale, the NPP scribe discounted claims that Dr. Bawumia who hails from the area has reneged on his promise of establishing a watermelon factory; a promise he is said to have made in the run-up to the 2016 polls.

“To jump to the conclusions that a promise which has not yet been fulfilled amounts to a failure to fulfill the same exposes a certain depravity of thought. The NPP is keen on delivering on its mandate As North Easterners, we are concerned about the plight of the water Melon farmers. Our brothers, sisters, mothers and fathers all engage in water Melon farming. So much income is derived by these farmers and so the NPP is poised on setting up a melon factory"

1D1F is the program that is supposed to address this challenge. However, what the NDC fails to understand is that the 1D1F program is a private sector-led initiative. Government intervenes to ensure that investors get funding for it. The NPP is determined to fulfill this promise”, he disclosed.

The NDC had earlier in a press conference claimed the NPP failed to deliver on its promises to the people of the area as far as the watermelon factory is concerned.

But Sulley Sambian in reaction to the claim observed “from the infantile logic of the NDC, once a promise has been made, the fact that it has not yet been fulfilled amounts to failure. Only people with warped logic would come to this conclusion. The NPP will set up a melon factory in this region before 2020 elections”