He said one of the most important promises was the free senior high school education policy which would commence in September this year and was aimed at relieving parents of the burden of paying school fees.

President Akufo-Addo said his administration would revive the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS), which is facing the shortage of cash and is thus crippling the health delivery system.

Addressing the congregation of the Global Evangelical Church at Ho Fiave, as part of his two-day visit to the Volta Region yesterday, President Akufo-Addo also touched on the ‘One-district, One-factory” and the “Planting for Food and Jobs” policies to invigorate national desire for industrialisation, as well as food sufficiency.

Entourage

He was accompanied by the Volta Regional Minister, Dr Archibald Yao Letsa; the Minister of Lands and Forestry, Mr John Peter Amewu; the Minister of Chieftaincy and Religious Affairs, Mr Kofi Dzamesi; the Minister for Gender, Children and Social Protection, Ms Otiko Afisa Djaba, the Deputy Minister of Youth and Sports, Mr Pius Hadzide; the Vice-Chancellor of the  University of Health and Allied Sciences (UHAS), Prof. John Gyapong, and the Managing Director of the Ghana Oil Company (GOIL), Mr Patrick Akorli, in addition to party executives from the regional and some constituency branches.

The President introduced the newly confirmed Municipal Chief Executive (MCE), Mr Nelson Akorli, and the Ho West District Chief Executive (DCE), Mr Ernest Apau, to the congregation and appealed to them to extend good will and support to them to enable them to perform their duties diligently to the expectations of the people.

President Akufo-Addo said he had met with the vice-chancellors of the UHAS and the Ho Technical University (HOTU) to identify their problems and addressed them so that the universities would be strengthened to deliver to expectation.

He thanked the people of the Volta Region for their encouragement and support and said he was more than prepared to develop the whole nation in accordance with the mandate offered him. 

He was later presented with bibles and his portrait in commemoration of his worship with the congregation.

The visit also coincided with the end of a four-day delegates conference of the men’s ministry of the church.

Men’s delegates conference

Preaching the sermon, the Synod Clerk, Reverend Raphael Mark Atti, said love and truth were inseparable because it was only those who loved their neighbours who could tell them the truth.

He told the congregation that they were free to choose any action in life but they “do not have the freedom to choose the consequences of those actions.”

He added that the consequences were predetermined and, therefore, asked the congregation to be careful of the actions they took.