The Western Region edition of the programme centred on the oil sector and how it could be managed efficiently to develop the region. The NPP was represented by the Member of Parliament (MP) for Takoradi, Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah and the parliamentary candidates for Sekondi and Wassa East, Andrew Mercer and Wilson Arthur respectively as panelists. Unknown to the organizers of the programme, more NDC activists were those given the microphone to ask questions and after realizing that, supporters of the NPP stood up and protested. He promised that the next NPP government to be headed by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo would relocate the Ghana National Petroleum Corporation (GNPC) from Tema in the Greater Accra Region to the Western Region. “The NPP will use the oil as growth pole to change the Western Region.

Source: GhanaWeb September 13, 2016 08:37 UTC