Winneba (C/R), July 14, GNA- A National Democratic Party (NDC) government would initiate a comprehensive policy to transform the youth into a creative workforce towards national development, if voted to power in the 2008 Election.

Mr. Mike Allen Hammah, a leading member of the party and aspiring parliamentary candidate for Effutu, said this on Saturday when he addressed NDC youth in Winneba. He said the youth constituted 54 per cent of the country's population and the NPP would give them the needed training so that they could take over the mantle of leadership. Mr Hammah advised the youth to stay away from vices such as drug abuse, HIV/AIDS and prostitution since that could ruin their future. He said if elected as Member of Parliament, he would make the area trade and investment gateway to the Central Region to attract investors to establish industries to reduce unemployment in the area. Mr Hammah explained that he would work hard to ensure the establishment of an export processing zone, a market and construction of a fishing harbor to promote fishing in Winneba and its surrounding areas.

He advised the youth not to allow people to use them to create confusion, because the nation needed peace to develop. Mr Hammah appealed to NDC supporters who had attained 18 years to register when the voters' register was opened. In a related development, he inaugurated a recreational shed at Penkye built by the youth at the cost of 1,000 Ghana Cedis. Mr. Yakubu Barry, assembly member for Ewutu Efutu Senya district, appealed to the youth to participate in communal labour to towards the development of the area and to refrain from sexual promiscuity to avoid contracting HIV/AIDS.