The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has said the previous government of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), led by now flagbearer John Dramani Mahama, only tackled 30% of its 2012 Manifesto promises.
According to the NPP, the 30% was out of 280 promises captured in the 2012 Manifesto.
Addressing a news conference in Accra yesterday, the Deputy Campaign Manager for the NPP 2020 elections, Dr Mustapha Hamid, used these statistics to suggest that their opponent did not have any track record on fulfilling promises.
“Now, out of the 280 manifesto commitments we have from their 2012 Manifesto, NDC attempted tackling just about 30% of them,” he revealed.
“Ladies and gentlemen, the point I am making to you is that the NDC doesn’t have any track record on fulfilling any manifesto commitment,” he added.
Dr Mustapha Hamid took time to outline the promises the NPP said were not fulfilled by the Mahama administration, to paint a clear picture that his comeback could not prove contrary.
He asked Mr Mahama that what happened to the promise to address systematically the bottlenecks in production and transmission of power, and bring to an end the problem of erratic power supply by the end of 2013.
The answer to this question, Dr Hamid said, was “the exacerbation of the problem which led to the infamous dum-so crisis.”
He continued that in its 2012 Manifesto, the NDC promised to construct 200 new Community Day Senior High Schools across the country.
“However, you would agree with me that only 46 out of the 200 planned Community Day Senior High Schools were completed as of 2016 when they were leaving office,” he asserted.
Again, he mentioned that the NDC also promised to expand the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) benefit package to cover family planning, mental health, prostate cancer and the physically challenged, but failed to fulfill them.“The NDC further promised to establish Job and Enterprise Centres (JEC) in all regions to help the unemployed youth. Characteristic of the NDC, ladies and gentlemen, this never happened.“They also promised that through the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA), they would co-invest in leading agro-industrial establishments and increase the number of shea-nut factories from one (in Buipe) to three (one each in the Upper East and Upper West regions).“It will surprise you to know that it was in 2019, under the NPP’s enviable ‘One District, One Factory’ programme, that a shea butter factory was operationalised in Sheaga in the Talensi District […]
