Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, vice-presidential nominee of New Patriotic Party (NPP) flag bearer Nana Akufo-Addo, has noted that Ghanaians can have better lives devoid of hardships with the right leadership as Ghana’s problem is not the lack of resources but corruption and mismanagement.
Dr Bawumia added that for Ghanaians to see real change in their lives, there was the need to vote out the current John Mahama government which has been characterised by the twin evils of incompetence and mismanagement and unbridled corruption in every facet of the government’s operations.
Dr Bawumia made these comments on the first day of his Central regional tour at Nyanyano Kakraba in the Gomoa East constituency on Monday, September 26.
“There is a lot of hardships in the country today. In Nyanyano Kakraba, water is a problem, paying for electricity is a problem, paying school fees has become a problem, there are no jobs and this is why there is the need for change. Ghana’s economy has now been totally run to the ground and that is what is causing these hardships. But the problem is not a lack of resources: this is a land of resources but the real problem is that those who have been entrusted with the responsibility of managing our resources mismanage and steal them, and this situation cannot continue any longer,” he said.
Touching on some of the policies of the NPP, Dr Bawumia mentioned that to ensure development reaches all parts of the country and to ensure that the basic issues affecting persons, especially in the rural areas, are tackled, the NPP will allocate 20 per cent of the Capital Expenditure budget to the 275 constituencies every year, purposely for development at the local level.
“The ‘one constituency, one million dollars every year’policy will ensure that, unlike the current situation, our capital expenditure budget reaches all parts of Ghana especially our towns and villages and that the constituencies are directly given significant resources to tackle their developmental problems. So, from 2017, Gomoa East constituency will have an equivalent of $1million and this will come every year so that no one will sit in Accra and send these monies to Burkina Faso or Dubai and deprive you of the benefits that can be gained from such an amount,” he stated.
Source: NPP
