CPP TO ESTABLISH ENTERPRISE DEVELOPMENT FUND FOR WOMEN (PAGE 16)

Mrs Yvonne Nduom, wife of the flag bearer of the Convention People’s Party (CPP), Dr Paa Kwesi Nduom, has said a CPP government will establish Women’s Enterprise Development Fund to offer women the opportunity to access loans at low interest rates.
She said under a CPP administration, there would be a number of programmes, which have already been outlined, to help women to improve their lot and urged them to vote CPP for a prosperous Ghana.
She toured markets in Tema Communities Two, Five and Nine and also Ashaiman to canvass for votes. She was welcomed by cheerful market women, who were shouting the slogan "yeresesem" (meaning ‘we are changing the status quo’).
Mrs Nduom said a CPP government would set up a development fund to support women to small-scale businesses.
She said the women would be given loans with flexible terms payable over a stipulated period to enable them to feel comfortable with their trading activities and contribute adequately to house-keeping.
She was hailed by the women amidst singing and dancing. She said the CPP would not make empty promises as was being done by others and added: “We shall deliver as we have promised you”.
Mrs Nduom urged floating voters to decide wisely by voting for the CPP.
At the Tema Community Two market she was happy to be told that the market was built in the 1950s. She said the CPP government would use the same plan to extend the market because it represented the ideal type that women needed.
She added that Dr Kwame Nkrumah had the idea to provide only the best for his people and that was why he had the market designed to have shops and sheds.
Mrs Nduom noted that the present designs of markets exposed the women to the sun, which is not the best.
She said further that the CPP would seek the interest of women if voted into power.
When she was told by a section of the women that their husbands were unemployed because they were seamen, Mrs Nduom assured them of the CPP’s intention to revive the seafaring profession to ensure that their husbands were back to work.
Mrs Nduom appealed to all women to ensure that their children went to school to give the economy a booster in the future.
She shook hands with the traders as she went round the markets advising them individually to vote for the CPP.
At the Community Five market, Mrs Nduom realised that the traders had deserted the market because of lack of adequate structures.
She later went to Community Nine and Ashaiman markets and urged them to vote massively for the CPP for development.
She was accompanied by the CPP parliamentary candidate for Tema West, Mr Isaac Kofi Asempa, and some of the party faithful.