Former President John Dramani Mahama has listed some of the policies that the next National Democratic Congress (NDC) would initiate if he is elected as President in 2024.
Among the list includes scraping ministries such as Transport, Aviation, and Railways and making them one as well as merging Sanitation and Local Government.
Since he was given the nod as flagbearer of the NDC for the 2024 general elections in May this year, he has pledged to implement various policies that would restore economic stability.
In a Facebook post on Wednesday [November 8, 2023], former President John Dramani Mahama stated that if elected as president again after the 2024 general elections, his government would reduce the number of ministers and appointees, merge ministerial portfolios to prune down the number of ministries drastically and review and eliminate ex-gratia in its current form.
He also pledged to reduce waste, cost overruns, institutional borrowing, and breaches in public procurement rules; ensure compliance with internal and external financial control systems, recalibrate and amalgamate duplicated state agencies and discontinue the payment of utility bills, fuel, DSTV services among others as part of top government employees' service conditions.
On Tuesday [November 7, 2023], the former President had an engagement forum with the leadership of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Accra on under his "Building Ghana Tour".
During the event, John Dramani Mahama said he will reset the Ghanaian economy from a "sloppy decline" under the leadership of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
He also said the next National Democratic Congress (NDC) government will introduce a 24-hour economy work schedule to put the economy back on track.
Mr Mahama explained that the 24-hour economy strategy would enable businesses with the support of the government to run a 24-hour shift that would deal with the unemployment situation and increase the economic fortunes of the country.
The former President was elected in May, 2023 to lead the NDC again after earning a landslide victory in the polls.
He is set to face Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia who now heads the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP).
The Vice President was elected last Saturday during the NPP presidential primary after sweeping 118, 210 votes representing 61.43 per cent of all valid votes.
Both candidates have been busy putting forward their policies and visions in an attempt to galvanise the support they need to either come back to office or retain their position as the ruling party.
Source: Graphiconline.com
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Desperation !!!!! Anything goes when you are desperate for power for your last 4 years in politics. He can even promise heaven on earth if not restrain !!!!!!!
irrelevant policy.....0 tell us something better
How much would you save the taxpayer if you merge or ***barred word*** these ministries? The savings will be marginal as all the civil servants would be moved to another ministry or the merged ministry . The populist policies...
This man reminds me of his usual saying that when approach any elections in Ghana , one must lie to voters to the extent that promise that you cannot do you must push voters to accept . Mr. Mahama is coming for only one term so Ghanaian how could this man implement his vision within 4 years . Absolutely NO so please dont waste your vote for him unless you will team up with him to steal from Ghanaian
So what will happen to the civil servants at those ministries, the problem of Ghana is high interest rates on government debts, over bloated civil service, check Ghana's budget since 2009 and see how much Ghana paid as interest and compensation. This is just for the optics and as country we should read a lot to push politicians to give details, funding and how they can achieve their plans rather than the optics. 24 hour economy is a matter of demand and supply, until Ghana put in place a proper mechanism to stop importation and lower taxes for locally manufactured products we should forget about 24 hour economy. By the way the informal sector already run a 24 hour economy. What they need is demand and funding to expand business with low interest rates when the demand is high.
Totally empty talk. You will not come anywhere. You will come for what. We already know you that you can’t do.
This is not an achievement or any promise. I think our weak parliament should have made a law that compels our presidents to work with stipulated ministries determined and approved by parliament. Presidents and aspiring presidents must not be given the option to add or scrap ministries at their own will