Source: newsthemegh.com
Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has urged NPP members to reject claims that the party lacks a message to guide its campaign for the 2024 elections.
Although the NPP has had notable successes with its programs and projects since taking office in 2017, he claims that there is still more work to be done.
Dr. Bawumia was speaking at the NPP’s international women’s conference in the UK.
He listed more than 100 difficulties and issues that Ghanaians had, many of which had been rectified as a result of the implementation of certain policies and initiatives, including the digitisation agenda he had helped to lead.
We have a message for 2024, so don’t let anyone tell you otherwise! I hasten to add that this does not imply that everything we meant to do or should have done has been accomplished. Clearly, there is a lot more to be done, and we will work hard to do more.
Thanks to the President, H.E. Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, I have had the honor and privilege of being given the chance to develop and/or oversee the implementation of several of these problem-solving policy measures, he said.
As Vice President, Dr. Bawumia oversaw a number of projects, including the GhanaCard, Mobile Money Interoperability, Zipline, E-Pharmacy, Digital Address System, Agenda 111, and Zongo Development Fund, among others.
The Ghanaian economy has benefited from these actions, he continued, and easier access to goods and services has been made possible.
It is significant to highlight that the majority of the revolutionary policy changes we have implemented since 2017 have benefited women and are being carried out for the first time since independence. It’s fascinating that many people with an attitude of impossibility have claimed that many of them are impossible because they haven’t been done before, but we have made them possible,” he continued.
Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia further pointed out that between 2017 and 2022, the GDP of agriculture increased by an average of 6%, compared to a pitiful 2.9% between 2013 and 2016.
By providing subsidies for seeds and fertilizer, the Planting for Food and Jobs Programme dramatically enhanced yields.
From 1.8 MT/HA in 2016 to 4.0 MT/HA in 2017, corn production increased. The same is true for vegetables, soybeans, sorghum, and rice (between 2.7MT and 4.5MT). Despite the COVID-19 global economic crisis and the war in Russia and Ukraine, agricultural growth is stronger under our government than it was under Mahama.
He implied that there were many issues that the New Patriotic Party government inherited that were fixed by careful consideration and original thinking.