Despite the hosting of Ghana’s 66th Independence Day Celebration in the Volta Region, the NDC branch in the region is demanding an unqualified apology from President Akufo-Addo ahead of the celebrations.

In a statement released by the party, they indicated that the citizens of the Volta Region have been treated unfairly especially in the registration for Ghana Card. According to the party, Voltarians have been treated by the Akufo-Addo-led government as if they are second class citizens.

The party is therefore demanding the President Akufo-Addo renders an apology to the people of the region even before the celebrations begin.

The statement released by the NDC in the Volta Region further made five demands from the government as it gears up for the celebration.

Here are the demands;

1. Apologise for treating the people of the Volta Region as second-class citizens in the registration for the ECOWAS card (Ghana Card)

2. Immediately release the 126 million owed the eighteen municipal and district assemblies in the region.

3. Construct the one Warehouse per constituency as promised

4. One district, one factory project.

5 Complete all the abandoned projects:

i. Ave-Dakpa to Akatsi and Akatsi to Avenofeme roads

ii. Ho to Torkor and Sokode to Kpeve roads captured under the so called emergency roads in the government declared 2020 year roads.”

The opposition party said the GH¢360,000 government is demanding from the 18 Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assembly (MMDAs) in the Region can rather be channeled into poverty eradication projects.