The Vice President of the Republic of Ghana, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has lauded the progress the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government has brought to Ghanaians from 2016 to date.
According to him, ever since the NPP assumed office in 2016, the country has improved in terms of economic and social activities, and citizens are free from suffering.
“When you talk about suffering, for sure we have reduced suffering, you cannot say you have eliminated suffering, but compared to what we inherited from the NDC, we have reduced a lot of suffering.”
Dr. Bawumia also dismissed the NDC’s “Rescue Ghana Mission” campaign slogan, saying that the country was already rescued in 2017 when the NPP took over.
He reminded the public that the NDC government had to go to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a bailout in 2015 because of economic mismanagement; however, in 2017, the NPP implemented the Free SHS Programme, which saved parents about 2.2 billion Ghana cedis.
“This economy had to be rescued by the IMF, they had to go for a rescue, that was the real rescue mission, as a price of mismanagement of this economy which went off track,” he said.
Dr. Bawumia, comparing the NPP and NDC governments, pointed out that the employment freeze in the public sector, graduate unemployment, lack of postings for trained nurses and teachers, dumsor, and the failure to support the private sector all contributed to real hardships for Ghanaians before the NPP came to power.
He said Ghanaians are better off than they were under the erstwhile National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration, citing the Free SHS programme, Planting for Food and Jobs, the restoration of nurses’ trainee allowances, the Nation Builders’ Corps, and the over 2 million jobs created as contributing factors.
