The Vice President of the Republic, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has strongly defended the records and achievements of the Nana Akufo-Addo administration since it assumed office in January, 2017.
Using a combination of graphs, tables and evidence-based presentations, Vice President Bawumia outlined a long list of achievements chalked by the Akufo-Addo administration, based on its 2016 manifesto promises, and challenged anyone to produce any facts to dispute the record.
“The data speaks for itself,” Dr Bawumia declared, when he addressed participants at the Government Townhall Meeting and Results Fair underway in Kumasi, Ashanti Region, on Tuesday, 11th February, 2020.
Taking the audience through the daunting challenges the nation faced when the Akufo-Addo administration took office, including declining economic growth, high inflation rate, high interest rates, high fiscal deficit, a weak and collapsing financial system, high unemployment, a health insurance scheme on the verge of collapse, four years of dumsor with its costs, and many parents unable to afford school fees for their children, Vice President Bawumia said the NPP government had faced the challenges head-on, and had delivered on 78% of its manifesto promises.
“Notwithstanding the difficult economy we inherited we had to get on with it and start to fix the problems. We were cognizant of our many promises. In fact, at the direction of President Akufo-Addo, we put together a dashboard of manifesto promises immediately after we were declared winners of the 2016 election, and before we were sworn into office. We have been using this dashboard to track our manifesto promises since” the Vice President revealed.
“The challenge was huge. How could an economy that could not pay even teacher and nursing training allowances, suddenly deliver lower taxes, restore teacher and nursing training allowances, create jobs, implement free senior high school education, NABCO, Planting for Food and Jobs, One Village One Dam, One Constituency One Ambulance, reduce electricity prices, formalize the economy, industrializing the economy, reducing the cost of doing business, etc. while at the same time reducing the budget deficit and the rate of borrowing? It seemed an impossible task and our opponents were emphatic that we could not fulfill our promises. But we were very confident that with good economic management and by the grace of God, we could make what seemed impossible possible.
“The data and the evidence is clear that we have largely met our manifesto promises. We have delivered and are delivering on over 300 of our promises, and we are on course to do even more,” he confidently declared.
Vice President Bawumia described the fundamentals of Ghana’s economy as “strong”, insisting “the data shows that Ghana’s macroeconomic fundamentals are strong. Indeed, the strength of Ghana’s fundamentals was confirmed recently by Moody’s Ratings which changed Ghana’s sovereign ratings from B3 with a stable outlook to B3 with a positive outlook. This is unprecedented for an election year.
“For the first time in over two decades, Ghana’s trade balance recorded a surplus in 2017, a larger surplus in 2018, and an even larger surplus in 2019.
“Economic growth has been restored. Growth for 2017 was 8.1%, 6.8% in 2018 and a projected 7.0% in 2019, significantly exceeding the average sub-Saharan African (SSA) growth and amongst some of the fastest growing economies in the world for the last three years.
“In the history of the Fourth Republic, Nana Akufo-Addo has the best performance for any first term government since 1992. All the worst performances happened under the NDC which holds the record for first, second and third worst performances.
“The future is very bright. That is why we are asking the good people of Ghana to give Nana Akufo-Addo and the NPP ‘four more to do more for you’”.
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The one with myopic analysis is de vice president if u talk about a government that has reduce de rate of borrowing and u used percentages aso de variable you are be dis ingenious because wat was de total amount borrowed by de previous governments and what has been borrowed now compare the two and relate them to the projects that the borrowers used those monies for if you do that analysis you will know that dis current government has sold all of us for nothing but their pockets because all the money they haf contracted there is nothing tangible to show for it but you look at de previous government and u can point to various good projects like de Atoabo gas the terminal 3 all de various hospitals all those important infractures can pay all de loans used to built dem what about the other government (a word to the wise is enough )
Do you actual thing before writing this comment? That Ghanaians are hungry that is why robbers went to the Vise President's house? What a myopic brains and shallow minded person?. When the NDC was in power, Ghanaians were not hungry and there wasn't any arm robbery in Ghana?.Shame on you Aluta.
Aluta, it's not every news item that you need to comment, even when you have none. The intellectual level of the discussion is beyond this pedestrian comment. Please come with real facts or just keep mute for those with the facts to debate the vice prez
“For the first time in over two decades, Ghana’s trade balance recorded a surplus in 2017, a larger surplus in 2018, and an even larger surplus in 2019." Mr Vice President, can we get the details of this? Which Unit in MoF or BOG can we verify?
WHEN NDC WAS IN POWER UNDER JOHN MAHAMA NO ONE WENT TO YOUR HOUSE TO RANSACK IT. WHY? SIMPLE ANSWER! THE NUMBER OF HUNGRY GHANAIANS WAS NEGLIGIBLE. YOUR HOUSE WAS RECENTLY RANSACKED IN YOUR HOME TOWN WALEWALE. WHY? SIMPLE ANSWER! YOUR NPP GOVERNMENT OVER WHICH YOU SUPREINTEND HAS OVER WORSENED THE PLIGHT OF MANY GHANAIANS, YOUNG AND OLD. SO, TO MAKE ENDS MEET YOUR HOUSE HAS BECOME THE TARGET OF SOME OF THESE HUNGRY GHANAIANS. THEY CAN NOT SEE HOW MUCH THEY ARE STARVING WHEN YOU, YOUR STOMACH IS BLOATING EVERY SECOND. THAT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN YOUR NPP GOVERNMENT AND JOHN MAHAMA'S NDC GOVERNMENT.