We have seen president Mahama do a couple of things in the build up to this year’s election. So apart from saying “No Abaabase,” let’s look at the other things the NDC have been talking about in thier campaign. President Mahama and his NDC government promised to…
- Continue to provide competent leadership in the second term by building on the foundation it started in the first term.
- Rice production has doubled, producing an estimated 60% of our total national consumption, and it is our intention to meet our total national demand by the year 2021.
- We will come out of the IMF program next year with significantly lower interest rates.
- We will come out of the IMF program next year with a stable currency.
- We will come out of the IMF program next year with debt-to-GDP below 60%.
- We will come out of the IMF program next year with a deficit-to-GDP below 3%.
- Focus on economic transformation and livelihood empowerment in his second term. This will be done through activities including skills development, and added that the government was looking at self-employment as an avenue for the youth to earn incomes.
- Ghana’s inflation rate will fall to a single digit by 2017 when the country exits from the three-year Extended Credit Facility (ECF) programme with the Internationa Monetary Fund (IMF).
- Put emphasis on income generation and skills acquisition.
- Focus on investment in the Agriculture sector. According to the party, the investment in the sector is expected to ensure the creation of more jobs in the country from 2017 to 2020.
- By the time I complete my second term in office, by the grace of God, Ghana would be one of the countries with the best road network in Africa.
- Under the Cocoa Roads Improvement Programme and the Enhanced Road Fund Programme we are fixing our roads and we intend to continue this until the year 2020.
- More than 80% of our people have access to electric power and we intend to achieve universal coverage by the year 2020.
- Making Ghana become the hub for power supply in the whole of the West African sub-region.
- Making Ghana not only energy sufficient.
- Complete the main Agona Nkwanta Elubo road which is already under construction.
- To inject more resources into the educational sector in the Krobo area of the Eastern Region.
- Expand the free SHS policy to cover boarding students in deprived communities.
- We expect to achieve universal water coverage before the target date of 2025.
- On health infrastructure, he said the government had set for itself to provide each district with a first-class hospital.
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