President John Evans Mills Thursday presented his fourth State Of The Nation Address to parliament.
This was the President’s last for his first term. He talked about his achievements in the last three years and the steps he intends to take to win the war against corruption.
“The economy is full of promise and in terms of development; we are making substantial progress even though there is still a lot of work to be done,” he stated.
“Over the past three years that I have been President, much has been achieved in pursuance of our 'Better Ghana' Agenda,” President Mills said, and conceded, “Even though we have experienced internal and external constraints, we have reason to be hopeful of Ghana’s future.
President Mills said he was also happy that other political party leader were now seeing the need to pray and seek peace.
“We have to hold in check those who want to hold this country to ransom. If we are not circumspect, the peace of the country will be jeopadised,” he stated amidst jeers and boos from the Minority who clad in black.
Re-stating his government's commitment to ensuring peaceful elections in December this year, the president said the Electoral Commission will be adequately resourced to conduct a free, fair poll.
He said he had no intention of bringing about violence in the Ashanti Region neither did he know of anybody seeking to use his name to perpetrate such act.
But the NPP MP for Wenchi, Prof. George Gyan Baffour said those comments were unfortunate and regrettable.
He said the president, instead of using the opportunity to heal a deeply divided nation, rather deepened the divisions by making ethnic-laden comments.
Prof. Baffour said he was disappointed that rather than present a conciliatory statement, stoked old partisan commentaries that have threatened the security.
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