Bolgatanga, Aug 23, GNA - The youth in the Upper East Region have been asked to vote massively for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Election 2012, to retain President John Evans Attah Mills in power to enable him to continue to deliver on the Better Ghana Agenda.

Mr. Horuce Ankrah, Chairman of the NDC branch in the United Kingdom, who made the call, said he had formed a group called the Team of Popular Youth (TOPY) in all the ten Regions of Ghana to explain the good policies and plans of the Government to Ghanaians to enable the NDC to retain power.

He was addressing the youth at the inauguration of the Upper East branch of the TOPY and swearing into office of the national executive of the group, at the weekend in Bolgatanga.

Mr Ankrah said he was using his personal resources to assist the youth to engage in meaningful economic ventures to complement government efforts at creating jobs.

He said he had acquired 38 acres of land in the Eastern Region, 60 acres in the Central Region and 50 acres in the Upper East Region to engage the youth in farming.

Mr. Ankrah, who is the patron of the TOPY, said he would train 750 youth in the Upper West, Northern and Upper East Regions in basket weaving, batik, tie and die and kente weaving and give them capital to establish their own businesses after training.

He said plans were far advanced to establish a scholarship package for brilliant but needy students and to organise vacation classes for those who could not pass their examinations in those Regions.

Mr. Noble Alasgskomah, a leading member of the NDC in the Upper East Region, appealed to executives of the TOPY to go about their campaigns to win more votes for the party in 2012 devoid of insults.