The National Youth Organiser of the National Democratic Congress, Mr Ludwig Hlodze, has completed a three-day tour of the Volta Region and says that the people in the region are of the view that President Mills has done well and deserves a second term in office. According to him the numerous developmental projects that have improved the lives of the people was ample proof of the fact that the ‘Better Ghana Agenda’ was still on course and improving the lives of people. Mr Hlodze said this in an interview with the Daily Graphic after he had rounded up the tour at Nkwanta at the weekend. He, however, conceded that there was the need for more interaction with the grassroots support base of the party to regularly update them on the achievements of government. “There is the need for regular interaction and communication with the people at the grassroots. They need to be told on regular basis what is going on and what the government is doing”, he stressed. Mr Hlodze, therefore, charged municipal/district chief executives as well as ministers from the region to hold town hall meetings frequently to update the people on the numerous development projects that the government had undertaken or was still ongoing in line with the “Better Ghana Agenda”. He observed with satisfaction that by and large, the people at the grassroots had seen the quantum of development projects that had been undertaken in just three years of the Mills presidency and the several human-centered programmes and policies that had been rolled out. The purpose of the tour, according to him, was to encourage the youth wing of the party to fraternise with the grassroot supporters with the view to appraising them on what had been achieved by the Mills administration. It was also to educate them on the biometric registration that was scheduled to begin in March and to get first-hand feedback from the masses in the region. The tour began at Akatsi where he met with the youth wing of the party from the South, continued to Ho and Hohoe where he met those in the middle zone before he went to Nkwanta to meet those in the northern part of the region. The tour, he said, began last year and so far six regions had been covered and that the Volta Region was the seventh region that he and his team had toured . As part of the tour, Mr Hlodze and his team paid a visit to the site of the University of Health and Allied Sciences where structures had almost been completed for the intake of the first batch of students when the academic calendar begins later this year. “This is the realisation of one promise that is very dear to the heart of the people of the region. I am glad to witness that these structures are now in place and that this year, the first batch of students will commence their studies”, he said. He debunked speculations that President Mills did not care about the region and said the President was very concerned about the region and also had great love and respect for the people of the region. Asked why the president had toured all other regions but had still not toured the Volta Region, he said “he who laughs last, laughs best. The President will come to the region in full style. The people of the region must just exercise a little patience”, he added. He and his team also paid a visit to the site of the Chinese contractor who was to construct the 62-kilometre road from Nkwanta to Oti-Damanko. For him, it was gratifying that contrary to rumours that the Eastern Corridor Road Project would not take off, contractors had already moved to site with their equipment and were ready to work. The Deputy Manager of the Chinese Construction Company, Mr Leo told the Daily Graphic that the company would employ 500 local people. This reporter observed a sizeable number of indigenes of the area who had thronged the place to catch a glimpse of the equipment that had been brought to the 120,000 square-metre walled compound that the company was occupying. When the Daily Graphic interacted with some of them, they expressed joy that their road which was very dear to their hearts was going to be constructed. “President Mills is good. We love him and we thank him for remembering us and doing our road for us”, 42-year-old Amina Laade, a petty trader said with glee.