"Where are the factories? Where are the dams? Where are the warehouses? Where is the one million dollars per constituency?" These are the questions that former President John Dramani Mahama is asking the Akufo-Addo government.
Addressing delegates of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in Tatale constituency, ahead of the party’s flagbearership race, Mr Mahama said he has yet to see a single factory from the One-District-One-Factory NPP manifesto promise.
It would be recalled that earlier this year, the Vice-President, Dr Mahamadu Bawumia reiterated government's resolve to construct 570 dams under the One-Village-One-Dam policy initiative.
The construction of the dams will begin this year, 2018, according to the Vice-President.
Ahead of the 2016 presidential and parliamentary elections, the then main opposition party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) led by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo made a promise to construct dams in every village in the three Northern Regions as a way of supporting farming in these communities all year round.
Speaking at the annual “Paarigbielle” festival of the chiefs and people of the Tumu Traditional Area in the Upper West Region, on Saturday, 17 March 2018, Dr Bawumia said: “Along with the Government policy of Planting for Food and Jobs we have also initiated the policy of One Village One Dam and I am glad to note that this policy is taking off this year, and for the three Northern regions this year, we expect the construction of a total of 570 dams."
But Mr Mahama, who has been crisscrossing constituencies and districts of the Northern Region for three days as part of his five-day tour of the region to interact with NDC delegates, caustically said the lesson in the unfulfilled promises is that it is easier for promises to be made but not kept.
“It is easier to give political lectures on the economy than to manage the economy,” he said.
The former President further added that “any Economics Lecturer can give lectures on the economy. But not every lecturer can manage the economy."
Source: Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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FORMER HUMILIATING DEFEATED PRESIDENT SHOULD HAVE KNOWN BETTER TO SHIELD HIMSELF FROM SUBSIQUENT EMBARASING DEFEAT. GHANAIANS HAS NOT FORGOTTEN OF HIS ADMINISTRATION'S LOOT AND SHARE STYLE OF GOVERNMENT HE GAVE TO GHANAIANS WHEN THEY WERE IN POWER FOR THE 8YEARS!!! HE SHOULD BETTER ADVISE HIMSELF AND STOP MAKING UNFORTUNATES ATTACKS!!!
Did this nincompoop attend school at all?After leaving a shattered economy how does this guy expect someone to wave a magic wand so that all the things he is calling for will appear?What this schmuck should be telling the people of Ghana is how much debt he left and also how mush he and his friends and relatives s-t-o-le.
Someone should tell this incompetent 1diot to shut the fu**k up! When given the opportunity, Mahama messed up so badly and yet he wont allow us to have our peace? If not for the NDC's f00*lish*ness, a material like JM will only find place in a ***barred word*** dustbin.
why is odwan funu a barred word because of JM? D*ead Go*at
JM ese wo ye wo abadzi eee? you said you won't listen to anyone because you have become a ***barred word*** and now you want to be listened to. ehu me akofa aba? you too where are the 200 school buildings? where is the NHIS one time premium? where are all the promises you made that were not fulfilled? above all where is the comfortable lead and the Usain Bolt? yere twan wo. 2020 you will find your smoothness level courtesies to your own Kwesi Pratt.
JDM, SO HONEST, TRUTHFUL, OBJECTIVE, ON-POINT AND APT WHENEVER HE SPEAKS.
You also promised training colleges in all the 10 regions but couldn't built one. Aren't you ashamed of yourself? You don't know shame at all.
SEE WHO IS TALKING? JOHN MAHAMA, PRAY FOR YOUR PARTY TO GIVE YOU THE OPPORTUNITY BEFORE YOU JUMP ON TO THE CURRENT GOVERNMENT. i KNOW YOU WILL LOOSE THE ELECTION. BECAUSE YOUR OWN PARTY (NDC) WILL REJECT YOU FLATLY.
Everything about John Mahama is rubbish or boola.