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Deputy Minister of Works and Housing, Hon. Eugene Boakye Antwi finds it amusing the promise of the largest opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) to implement free primary healthcare when voted into power again.

According to the Member of Parliament (MP) for Subin Constituency in the Ashanti Region, former President John Dramani Mahama does not understand the free primary healthcare policy that the NDC manifesto is promising to implement.

Speaking on Okay FM’s 'Ade Akye Abia' Morning Show, Hon Boakye Antwi insisted that the NDC cannot implement the free primary healthcare policy based on the fact that they failed to implement the one-time premium NHIS they promised.

He reiterated that John Dramani Mahama and the NDC government could not manage the vibrant National Health Insurance Scheme they inherited from former President John Agyekum Kufuor.

“John Mahama and the NDC don’t understand the free primary healthcare policy. I have stayed outside the country before and I know how the free primary healthcare operates . . . even the NHIS handed to them by former President Kufuor, they could not manage it, how can they do free primary healthcare? He does not understand what he is saying,” he stated.

Still on the NDC’s 2020 manifesto, Hon. Boakye Antwi said that the manifesto has offered Ghanaians the opportunity to judge for themselves the best performer between the governing NPP and the main opposition NDC in terms of infrastructure and the political party capable of honouring its promises.

He stressed that Ghanaians now have the chance to compare records between the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).