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The achievements of the NDC administration in the last three years is expected to dominate the State of the Nation Address to be delivered by President John Evans Atta Mills to Parliament today.
The address, which forms part of the President's constitutional mandate, will be the fourth - and last - by President Mills for his first term.
Other key areas critics expect him to cover include steps he intends to take to win the war against corruption, the abortive STX housing project, the US$3 billion Chinese loan, security and the infamous judgment debt payments.
Members of Parliament had Tuesday threatened the president with a boycott unless he determines their salaries and emoluments.
However, President Mills averted the boycott by parliamentarians by yielding to the pressure and committed himself to a March 1st deadline for a resolution of the MPs grievance. This was the outcome of a meeting between the leadership of Parliament and President Mills on Wednesday.
Majority Leader Cletus Avoka was in the meeting and told Evans Mensah on Joy FM’s Top Story Wednesday that the president appreciated the condition of service of MPs and office holders as stipulated under Article 71.
He said, to avoid the pitfall that the MPs and other office holders under Article 71 encountered some years back, President Mills directed that salaries and emoluments under this constitutional provision must be addressed holistically before the end of the year.
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