The Overlord of the Mion Traditional area, Alhaji Abdulai Mahamadu III, has described the policies and programmes of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) as "people-centred", achieving "positive, far-reaching impacts" across the nation. "Though I am a chief and without political inclination, permit me to say that the NPP Government's policies and programmes are truly people centred", the Mion Lana declared on Thursday, 3rd September when the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia paid a courtesy call on him at the beginning of a 10 day working visit to the five northern regions.