Tamale, Nov. 10, GNA - Mr Alan Kyerematen, a presidential aspirant of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has promised to bridge the development gap between Northern and Southern Ghana, when he becomes President. He said he would do this by improving road and rail networks in addition to developing water transport on the Volta Lake.

Mr Kyerematen was addressing a press conference in Tamale to round off his five-day campaign tour of constituencies in the Northern Region during which he asked delegates to elect him as the flagbearer of the NPP at the Party's primaries scheduled for December 22.

Members of his campaign team included Mr Ntow Ababio, campaign manager, Nana Yaw Attah, member of the Young Executive Forum (YEF), Efo Filipo, South Dayi constituency chairman, Mr Osei Bonsu, Adansi Akrofuom constituency chairman, and Dr Anthony Osei of the YEF.

Mr Kyerematen said he would embark on an aggressive industrialisation policy and the establishment of agro-industries, as well as the introduction of Information Communication Technology (ICT) as strategies to bridge the North/ South development gap. He recalled that during his tenure as Minister for Trade and Industries, the Pwalugu tomato factory was revived and that very soon the government would establish a sugar plantation in the Savelugu/Nanton District.

The plantation, he said, would produce about 100,000 tonnes of sugar and that it's by products would be used to produce about 800 litres of bio-diesel and electricity.