The presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, has announced that his new government will implement a $10 billion, 5-year infrastructure investment to improve critical sectors of the country if he is elected president.
The former president also promised to complete ongoing projects instead of starting new ones, which is often the practice when there is a change of government.
Speaking at the NDC’s manifesto launch at the University of Education, Winneba, Mr. Mahama said his administration will “implement a $10 billion, 5-year infrastructure investment in critical sectors.”
He futher posited that his administration will “complete abandoned and ongoing projects instead of rushing to start new ones. We will carry out an inventory of all hospitals, schools, electrification, water, and road projects that have stalled or been abandoned and make annual budgetary allocations for completing them.”
He described “This NPP administration is the biggest political scam that has been pulled on Ghanaians since our independence in 1957. They were repackaged with ribbons and sweetly scented with enticing promises and most Ghanaians will agree that Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo is indeed the president Ghana never got and his much-touted economic wizkid, Vice President Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia, is also the economic messiah Ghana never got.”
“The NPP government took over from our administration in January 2017 and inherited an energy sector we had stabilised with the fastest mobilisation of emergency power of almost 800 megawatts in the history of Ghana.
“Along with this came a new energy sector levy act which we called ESLA with a potential revenue of GH¢3 billion every year to pay off legacy energy sector debt.”
By: Rainbowradioonnline.com/Ghana
