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The New Patriotic Party�s (NPP) democratic-liberalism, a well-knit political philosophy, is the prescription for healing Ghana�s current developmental inertia. Mr Ernest Gaewu, Legal Practitioner and NPP�s parliamentary candidate for the Ho-West made the observation in an interview with the Ghana News Agency in Ho on Wednesday. He said policies fashioned within the context of the NPP�s Liberal Democratic philosophy are what could bring all Ghanaians along to tackle under-development, unemployment, institutional malfunctioning and low incomes among others. Mr Gaewu said Ghana�s rapid economic growth was linked to its ability to dismantle the barriers inhibiting the emergence of a virile private sector. He said a government of the NPP would raise the educational standards of the people through its proposed fee-free secondary education as a means of providing the corps of human resources to propel economic development. He said free secondary education would provide the country with quality human capital, easier to channel into guilds of self-employed people to ameliorate the current situation of a largely skill-deficient labour force. Mr Gaewu said the NPP had demonstrated that it had the capacity to respond better to the social needs of the people as demonstrated in the health insurance scheme, free maternal care, stipends for the poorest of the poor and youth employment. He said the Party�s liberal democratic leanings were its trump-card for harnessing creative talents of the people into productive units for development. Mr Gaewu said Ghana also needed a bold leader such as Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo- Addo, NPP Flag Bearer, who would exercise his executive powers under the constitution to ensure that policies worked. Nana Akufo-Addo Mr Gaewu asserted had the qualities to tackle the indiscipline in society, leakages in the national kitty, corruption, management mediocrities and the general malaise in the country. �A President must be bold, where the buck stops, and we have that in Nana-Akufo-Addo,� Mr Gaewu stated. He said Nana Akufo-Addo had the track record of insistence on good results from assignments, good evaluating skills and abhors mediocrity and therefore the capacity to send Ghana into the class of the Eastern Tigers sooner than later. Mr Gaewu blamed vile propaganda for projecting the NPP as anti-Volta Region which had been responsible for the Party�s poor performance in the Region in the past five elections. Mr Gaewu said the NPP was devising means of awakening the people of the Region to the truth that the NPP was a national party in which those from the region had important stakes. The ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) won 21 of the 22 constituencies in the Volta Region in the 2008 election. Nkwanta-North went to the NPP.