Vice President Paa Kwesi Amissah-Arthur on Wednesday went to his hometown Moree in the Central Region and asked the people to retain the National Democratic Congress (NDC) to continue with its agenda of better life for all. He said the NDC is people-centred and development-oriented.

The Vice President who was given a rousing welcome in his maternal hometown said the NDC government was always interested in serving the people and bringing balance and equitable development and not to lord it over the people.

Vice President Amissah-Arthur visited the home of his maternal clan, the Anona Abusua, Moree-Congo, the elders and opinion leaders of Moree and addressed a durbar of chief and traditional leaders of the town.

On his entry into the town crowds of people wearing NDC paraphernalia including a procession of brass band music, sang, blew trumpets and made merry in acknowledgement of their son who rose through Deputy Minister of Finance for 12 years through an economic consultant, Governor of Bank of Ghana to the second highest political position of Vice President of the Republic of Ghana.

When he called at the family house, the head of family, Abusuapanyin Nana Segu Amanfo gave him a hearty welcome.

Other members of the family testified that he was a true son of the family and together with his mother had participated regularly in the family’s social activities.

They pledged their support for the peace of the election and victory of the NDC. Vice President Amissah-Arthur expressed appreciation to his kinsmen for their support, promising that the NDC would never turn its back on them.

At the gathering, Mr Ekow Panyin who said he was an ardent supporter of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), the main contender of the NDC, announced that he had defected from the NPP to the NDC because the NDC was pursuing a better agenda than the NPP.

Amidst tears, Mr Panyin pledged to follow the NDC till death. When the Vice President met with the elders, Nana Kwagya VII, Chief Fisherman of Moree appealed to the government to absorb the secondary school in the area into the public education system, provide a dormitory and a bus for the school, upgrade the Health Post in the area into a hospital and equip it with an ambulance.

He also appealed for the improvement of the drainage system in the area, provision of a community centre and residential accommodation for the Police.

Vice President Amissah-Arthur said the drainage system which the NDC government started in the year 2000 was rather abandoned when the NDC lost power in the year 2000 election.

With cheers, the people acknowledged that the project had resumed recently and the Vice President asked the people to retain the NDC so that all projects that had begun would not be abandoned again.

Some of the projects are electrification, water improvement and sanitation. He assured the people that the drainage system would be completed before the end of the year.

The Vice President said the landing beach project earmarked for the area was being covered in the Chinese loan government contracted adding that a cold store started by a private investor sometime ago would also be looked at.

He had earlier called at Cape Coast where, together with his mother, Mrs Efe Amissah-Arthur, he interacted with members of the family.

According to a family spokesperson, the Vice President belongs to the third and fourth generation of the descendants of the late statesman, Casely-Hayford.

Vice President Amissah-Arthur had also called on the Chief of Abura-Dunkwa and addressed staff and students of Aburaman Senior High School. He urged the people to give their thumbs to the NDC on December 7.