Mills’ monitoring team sensitises youth

AN Advanced research and monitoring team for the Prof. Atta Mills’ campaign, the Bread and Water Group, is sensitising the youth to what it describes as “operation protect your ballot box”, ahead of the December polls.
The group, which was inaugurated in 2007, is, among other things, aimed at mobilising the electorate across the country to vote massively for the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the coming elections.
Thus, followers of the NDC, particularly the youth in the various constituencies, have been sensitised to the need to ensure vigilance before, during and after the elections to avoid any forms of fraud.
Speaking to the media at the weekend, the Communications Director of the group, Mr Alfred Triddles, said formation of the team, which constituted a campaign wing of Prof. Mills, was to attract more votes to the party in this year’s elections, noting that the security of the ballot box was supreme, since elections were won and lost at the polling stations.
Mr Triddles, who said the group had so far registered 1,250 people, explained that the members were reaching out to some key voter constituencies in selected areas, including hawkers and other market women to shore up support for the NDC flag bearer.
The Deputy Greater Accra Regional Women’s Organiser of the NDC, Mercy Akroma, said victory was staring the party in the face, but what could guarantee that feat was diligence and vigilance.
She called on the women’s wing of the NDC to support the market programme of Mrs Ernestina Naadu Mills, wife of Prof. Mills, to carry the ‘good’ message of the party to the marketplaces.
In her contribution, the Deputy Propaganda Secretary of the NDC, Mrs Anita De-sosoo, who catalogued some achievements chalked up under the erstwhile NDC administration, told the Daily Graphic that the next NDC government would not scrap the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP) as propagated by detractors of the party.
“Rather, our next government would restructure the programme such that the youth engaged under it would be covered by social security,” she said.
She added that, as the NDC‘s show of commitment to sustaining the NYEP, co-ordinators working for the programme would keep their jobs, bearing in mind that the “programme is for the good of the nation and not a political party.”