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<\/a><\/p>\nAccording to the NPP, its objective was to transform teachers to enable them lead the transformation of the quality of students via enhanced teacher training, monitoring and evaluation to ensure better performance in school and students results.<\/p>\n
The NPP also committed to ensuring that basic education provided every Ghanaian with adequate literacy, numeracy and basic ICT skills.\u00a0Thus it said it would work towards providing every basic school with ICT infrastructure to enable ICT education.<\/p>\n
Housing<\/strong><\/p>\nThe NPP targeted the building of affordable housing units for rental across Ghana in a partnership between a proposed Housing Agency, Metropolitan Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDA) and the Private Sector (e.g. GREDA) in public-private partnership (PPP) arrangements.<\/p>\n
It also planned to encourage MMDA\u2019s to set up a dedicated \u201cDistrict Housing fund to provide infrastructure for social housing.<\/p>\n
Fighting corruption<\/strong><\/p>\nThe NPP\u2019s plan to tackle corruption was to employ preventive, detective, corrective and punitive mechanisms with an anti-corruption policy based on three key pillars; institutional reform, legislative reform and attitudinal change.<\/p>\n
As part of these, the NPP manifesto promised independent prosecution as a remedy to the fact both the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) and the Economic and Organised Crime Office need permission from the Attorney General to prosecute. The party also served notice of plans to boost parliamentary oversight<\/p>\n
The party also planned to mandate the Attorney-General to report to Parliament on the potential liability of the State arising out of claims against the State and also report on judgment debts paid and those due and owing every six months.<\/p>\n
The NPP 2012 manifesto proposed\u00a0an effective Assets Declaration Regime by fostering a working environment for asset declaration via effective monitoring of asset declaration by amending the law to require the Auditor General to publish periodically the list of all persons so required.<\/p>\n
Sanctions were also to be put in place\u00a0for the non-declaration of assets within the stipulated time frame which would result in a forfeiture of appointment, in the case of political appointees.<\/p>\n
Power sector<\/strong><\/p>\nIn the Power sector the NPP said it would work with the private sector to increase output and will reopen negotiations with interested partners to develop and complete the mini-hydro power projects such as Pwalugu, Juale, Pra, Ankobra and Tano.<\/p>\n
Good governance in the sector, to remove inefficiencies, and facilitate effective autonomy and ensure transmission and distribution reliability and security was also to be a priority.<\/p>\n
The party spoke of an \u201cAccelerated Oil Capacity Programme\u201d which would target the training of Ghanaians in high job creation sectors including fabrications and installation, manufacturing of equipment and construction of oil and gas infrastructure in line with the apprenticeship model.<\/p>\n
The party said it would also pursue the development of sources of renewable energy to diversify as well as ensure sustainability of our energy sources for at least a thirty-year period.<\/p>\n
Agriculture<\/strong><\/p>\nThe NPP targeted the\u00a0development of all four of Ghana\u2019s breadbaskets to enhance productivity and production in selected food crops, mainly maize and rice, and high value cash crops as horticultural products.<\/p>\n
The party presented an\u00a0integrated approach to the agricultural sector under the Millennium Challenge Account (MCA) project which would recognizes that key constraints affecting the sector will have to be tackled simultaneously to produce sustained results.<\/p>\n
In a policy toeing the line of the one district, one dam’s, the NPP intended to expand irrigation coverage Nationwide, especially in the Afram Plains and in Northern Ghana. The party planned to\u00a0facilitate community-owned facilities like dams, boreholes, and dugouts to expand irrigation.<\/p>\n
Transport<\/strong><\/p>\nThe NPP\u2019s plan to improve the transport sector was to integrate and consolidate all modes of transportation to improve efficiency and hence cut down costs.<\/p>\n
Roads-wise, the party intended to partner with the private sector\u00a0to develop interchanges, flyovers and overpasses in urban areas to reduce vehicular traffic whilst connecting the regional capitals with first class roads.<\/p>\n
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<\/a><\/p>\nStill with the private sector, the party also had plans to establish a modern rail network that would link the North to the South through the Eastern corridor Accra through to Akosombo, Kumasi and then to Paga mainly for the exploitation of iron ore reserves in the north.<\/p>\n
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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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