Private businesses in Ghana thrive the “most” under the National Democratic Congress, former President John Mahama has stated.
He said claims that the opposition party, which is socialist in orientation, is against business are false and misleading.
Speaking at the first enrollment ceremony at the NDC’s ideological Institute in Accra, Mahama urged members of the party to be proud of their ideological and their achievement while in power.
“Indeed some of the parties that call themselves conservative parties have moved left from centre and today are involved in social safety nets like National Health Insurance, Free Senior High School and others that are all social democratic programmes and so we must be proud of our ideological orientation and we must redefine it so that people clear the misconception they have about social democracy
“We must let people know that our party is not against business.
In times that our party has been in government, businesses have prospered the most. Even so-called conservative and property-owning parties in Africa cannot afford to be the kind of conservative parties that we find elsewhere,” he stated.
He added: “If you go to the developed countries, when the conservatives come to power they whittle away social welfare but in Africa, you can’t whittle away social welfare”.
He also dispelled rumours that the NDC school was set up for sinister motives.
“Contrary to widespread perception, institutes like this are not institutes for indoctrinating people. The perception in the First Republic was that the ideological institutes were set up to brainwash and to become ideologically robust of the governing party”.
Source: starrfmonline
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since when has corruption and incompetence become businesses? this man's brain is still hibernating. the only things we all know prosper the most under ndc is corruption (creating loot and sharing) and incompetence. businesses collapsed more under ndc and it is a known fact. this man will not ***barred word*** and stop embarrassing himself
HAHAHA, WHAT OF ***barred word***, LAIR, STEALLLING ,CHEATING, CORRUPTION, IT INCREASE UNDER MAHAMA 1 BILLION PERCENT, FIAFITOR, EOCO WANT U, FROM GH PEOPLE
Yes we agree but only the corrupt once like the youth in bicycle ridding and the Nkonfem rearing that disappeared to Burkina.
NA LIE !!!! Mtchwwwwww dumsor alone gave us the statistics awwwww please stop letting us look ***barred word*** again after lying to us about comfortable lead
It's seems to me like mahama is still not recover from election shocked.
President Mahama you are still the man who Jah bless no one curse
Some of them thrive because of dubious deals like the unnecessary sole sourcing of contracts to Jospong companies.... Giving a whole bauxite contract to your brother... is not genuine growth of business... it is cronyism. You then impose nuisance tax on the rest of us..... Mahama is truly greedy and incompetent. Where is your Kanazoe ford explorer?
Jospong prospered didnt he? under your corrupt leadership.
IF CORRUPTION IS BUSINESS THAT'S FINE