Nkwanta (V/R), July 19, GNA - Mr Joseph Kwaku Nayan, Deputy Volta Regional Minister on Tuesday said government had demonstrated enough goodwill towards the planning, management and development of all facade of the economy that demanded its continuity in political governance.

He mentioned notably the 547 million dollar Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) project being the latest government-United States collaboration and intervention, which principally focused on rural agriculture, transportation and community development.

Speaking to the Ghana News Agency in an interview, Mr Nayan said the country was witnessing an unparallel development agenda under the tutelage of President J. A. Kufuor, which had been acknowledged widely, including the international community.

He attributed the prudent and sterling performance of government to the judicious use of resources towards prescribed projects unlike the misappropriation and misapplication, which heralded certain regimes in the history of the country.

Mr Nayan, also the Member of Parliament (MP) for Nkwanta North said Ghanaians were yet to see the vim in the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and had no other chance than to retain the party in the 2008 general elections to facilitate its early qualification into a middle-income country.

On development in the Constituency, he outlined that

over 50 students from the senior secondary, teacher training,

health aides and the university had benefited from scholarship

schemes emanating from his MPs Common Fund, totalling 150

million cedis in the 2005/2006 academic year alone. He said a technical workshop was constructed for the

Kpassa Senior Secondary School, worth 140 million cedis and

the rehabilitation of the school bus at a cost of 33 million cedis

with resources from the Ghana Education Trust Fund (Getfund). On roads, Mr Nayan said Kadjebi-Damanko trunk road

network had been earmarked for construction next year to open

up the area, Kpassa-Tenjasi road billed for surfacing and routine

maintenance, with culvert works on the Damanko-Ogyri

completed for actual construction and Kpassa-Kambale road

being improved. He said feasibility work has been completed to pipe

the Oti River to serve Damanko-Kpassa communities with a

population of about 40,000 under the Governments of Ghana

and DFID, as a roadmap to solving the perennial guinea worm

scourge in the area. Mr Nayan said several interventions were being

undertaken to improve agriculture, the pre-occupation of the

people in the area to increase productivity and create wealth.