NO RELIGIOUS DISCRIMINATION (SPREAD, NOV 7)

THE government has given the assurance that it will not leave out members of any religious denomination in its quest to revamp the national economy.
According to President J. E. A. Mills, since no religious denomination could lay absolute claim to wisdom and scholarship, it was incumbent on the government to pool ideas from these backgrounds to breath life into the economy and improve the lot of the people.
President Mills, who made these remarks at a durbar organised by the chiefs and people of Asawase Constituency in Kumasi, pointed out that the various religious denominations had members endowed with some of the finest brains in the country.
The interaction with the chiefs and people of Asawase formed part of the President Mills’s visit to the Ashanti Region where he was expected to thank the people for voting for the National Democratic Congress.
President Mills explained government policies and programmes, as well as learnt at first-hand problems confronting the people.
According to the President, the government would accord equal opportunities of development to the people irrespective of their religious backgrounds, since the nation needed the collective efforts of its citizens to restructure the various sectors.
He said paying equal attention to the expectations of people from diverse religious faiths was the duty of every responsible government which was committed to engaging its citizens in national reconstruction and development.
President Mills said the government would continue to promote religious harmony and tolerance, which were needed to ensure the full participation of the entire citizenry in nation building.
He briefed the people on the state of the national economy the government inherited from the previous administration, describing it as distorted and full of contradictions.
President Mills, however, assured the gathering that the government had taken the necessary measures to arrest the decline of the economy and inject sanity into all critical sectors of society.
He asked the people to exercise restrained whilst the government continued to take the appropriate interventions which would stabilise the economy and provide opportunities of employment for the people, especially the youth.
The Member of Parliament (MP) for the area, Alhaji Muntaka Mubarak, expressed confidence in the Mills administration to tackle the various problems plaguing society and restore confidence in the economy.
Alhaji Muntaka also assured the people of the government’s commitment to provide them with facilities which would open up the economy of the area, as well as improve their quality of life.
A representative of the Sarkin of the area thanked the government for the arrangements put in place especially at the Kotoka International Airport to ensure a successful Hajj.