Vice President to answer questions on April 3 at town hall meeting

By Godwill Arthur-Mensah, GNA

Accra, March 20, GNA - Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia and Head of the Government’s Economic Management Team, will on April 3, lead government team to a Town Hall Meeting at the College of Physicians and Surgeons to answer questions from the public on government policies and programmes.

The meeting, under the auspices of the Ministry of Information, would enable government officials, including state actors such as Ministers of State, Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives and heads of agencies to provide account of their stewardship and provide vital information to the public.

It would also afford Ghanaians the opportunity to ask pertinent questions bordering on the various sectors of the economy and make contributions towards the governance process.

Mr Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah, the Information Minister, addressing journalists at a media encounter in Accra on Wednesday, said the maiden town hall meeting would come off on March 29 at Kasoa Datus School Park

He said a total of 24 separate town hall meetings would be organised across the country this year.

The Minister said the town hall meetings were designed to bring governance closer to the people and showed a major shift in the government policy to make information accessible and useable by both Ghanaians within and in the Diaspora.

The town hall meetings, he said, would be accompanied by exhibitions by the Information Services Department that would provide pictorial and audio visuals of government activities over the past two years.

Mr Oppong-Nkrumah also used the media encounter to brief journalists about the Vice President’s official visit to India, to participate in the 14th Confederation of India Industries EXIM Bank on India-Africa Partnerships held in New Delhi, India.

Vice President Bawumia encouraged more investments for the country and held separate meeting with the India EXIM Bank officials.

During the meeting, Mr Oppong-Nkrumah said the Vice President signed a $150 million financing facility for agricultural mechanisation in Ghana and a $30 million facility for the Yendi water project.

The Minister explained that the $150 million facility would be used for provide equipment and training for the various agriculture mechanisation centres and service of equipment centres for access to farmers, while financing of the Yendi water project would aid in ensuring rapid socio-economic development in the area following the peaceful resolution of the age-long chieftaincy litigation.

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