General News of Wednesday, 31 August 2016Source: Myjoyonline.comNPP will implement $1m, 1 constituency poverty policy without sweat - KarboAnthony KarboThe New Patriotic Party says the one million, one constituency policy per year which is aimed at fighting poverty in Ghana is completely feasible and will be implemented if Nana Akufo-Addo is elected in December. The party has promised to allocate a total of $1.6 billion under the infrastructure for poverty alleviation policy if it wins the upcoming elections. A Deputy Director of Communication of the party, Anthony Karbo, in an interview with Joy News said a Nana Akufo-Addo presidency will implement this policy without any sweat. Building Ghana from bottomAnthony Karbo said this new policy will be a "major policy shift" from the centralized way of governing the country. "Accra will no longer decide a bridge is needed in a particular constituency.... We will make the monies available to the constituencies themselves for poverty alleviation policies," he stated.

Source: GhanaWeb August 31, 2016 19:41 UTC