Former President John Dramani Mahama has promised that the next National Democratic Congress (NDC) government will launch a robust fight against corruption.
John Dramani Mahama claims that corruption is one of the channels through which state resources are wasted. Addressing NDC delegates at Garu in the Upper East Region, the NDC flagbearer hopeful, stressed that any individual found engaging in corrupt practices under his administration, will be dealt with, regardless of his or her party affiliation.
“NDC is going to come into office, and we are going to launch a strong fight against corruption because we all know that corruption is one of the waste pipes in this country. People who appropriate the money of the state, must be brought to book and sanctioned and NDC is going to do that. It doesn’t matter whether the people are our own or from some other party, we will make sure that the sword is slammed equally and anyone who takes the people’s money, must suffer for it.”
John Dramani Mahama
Mahama Promises To Repair Free SHS, NHIS Policies
The NDC flagbearer hopeful also promised to repair Akufo-Addo’s problematic Free SHS policy and the National Health Insurance Scheme, if he is re-elected President in the 2024 elections.
John Dramani Mahama claimed that in reviewing the two policies, he will ameliorate the plight of Ghanaians and enhance the policies for a better Ghana that will be built together.
“Free SHS is not working properly, the benefit it is supposed to give the parents, they are not getting. I can tell you today that the money we are spending on our children to go to school, is far more than when we used to pay school fees. We are going to repair the free SHS and make it better and create the situation, so that when school reopens, all the children will go together and when they vacate, they all can come home together.”
John Dramani Mahama
According to the former President, John Dramani Mahama, the challenges associated with the implementation of the Free SHS have negatively affected the quality of education in various senior high schools, hence the need to review the policy.
John Dramani Mahama, speaking during a campaign tour in Kongo in the Upper East Region, pledged to end the challenges of the free SHS and the NHIS.
The former President reiterated his call for the Health Minister to resign over the collapse of the NHIS.
“The NHIL is completely destroyed, the Minister himself said there is no benefit to the NHIL card and that when he goes to the hospital, he pays cash and that was why I said he should resign…and so NDC is coming to make it better.”
John Dramani Mahama
Mahama Speaks On EIU’s Predictions
John Dramani Mahama welcomed the prediction by the Economic Intelligence Unit (EIU) that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) stands a brighter chance of winning the 2024 elections.
On Friday, April 28, the international polls agency affirmed that Ghana’s leading opposition party will emerge victorious though managing the economy thereafter will be difficult.
“Our baseline forecast is that economic hardships, the fallout from debt restructuring and poor governance will create an anti-incumbency wave and push the electorate to seek change. The NDC therefore, stands a strong chance of winning the 2024 presidential poll and securing a legislative majority.”
EIU
However, John Dramani Mahama addressing NDC delegates in the Upper East Region, claimed EIU predicted an NDC loss in 2016, even though it was in government and another loss in 2020. “Now they have predicted that the NDC will win in 2024,” he noted. “So far, their prediction has proved accurate,” he stressed.
He said the two factors for which the EIU is giving NDC the nod, are economic turbulence and poor governance and that the NDC did better. “And the verdict is out there and Ghanaians say NDC come for your stone,” he averred. JDM also claimed the defeat of the last elections in 2020 is a blessing in disguise, as the incumbent New Patriotic Party (NPP) had dissipated the national resources much at the blind side of everybody and it left a gaping hole waiting to be filled.
He said since NPP won, it has become the same party to fill that hole, a very difficult task which has led the country go abegging. “This is the first in history that we have defaulted in paying our debt,” stated Mahama.
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