Vice Chairman of the New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) Manifesto Committee, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has stated that the government has delivered more than 70% of their 2020 manifesto promises.
Speaking during an interview on Channel One TV, Oppong Nkrumah reiterated that, the government has never admitted that, it has fulfilled all 2020 promises.
“We are of the view that we have done north of 70% of the things we committed to in 2020. Other independent people can work it out and we can have a debate about it…we haven’t said we have done 100%, our data tells us that we have done north of 70%”, he stated.
Oppong Nkrumah noted that governments first tenure of office was smooth but due to the global crisis, the economy was slow during the second term, thus, the economy is bouncing back.
“If you look at our economy, the big basket of our economy, various variables are going into it, growth, inflation, jobs, cost of living. If you take all of these parameters from 2016 to 2020, the story is clear, where the trends were going. From 2020 up till now, you can see from all of these indicators the key ones that had some major challenges. Inflation and currency depreciation have been perhaps the most significant, you have seen growth picking back after the turbulence that we went through. You have seen currency depreciation, though it’s significant, going down after many policies were introduced to arrest the situation. We have seen inflation trending downwards because some interventions were made.”
He further urged Ghanaians to make the right decision by weighing the policies and records of the two leading presidential candidates.