The flagbearer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, says if Ghanaians give him the nod in the 2020 election, he will ensure that projects started by the current Akufo-Addo government but were not completed are completed.
Addressing Ghanaians on Facebook on Monday, the former President indicated that when the National Democratic Congress came into office in 2008, they completed and co-commissioned all projects of former President John Kufuor and thus he was surprised that the current NPP government was not paying attention to projects left by his administration.
He, therefore, said that he would make it a point to continue what he started and complete all projects that would be left by the New Patriotic Party government.
“Article 6 of the Ghanaian Constitution called the directive principles of state policy enjoins every succeeding government to continue all the projects began by its predecessors and this has happened in the past. I remember when Professor [J.E.A.] Mills came into office, there were some projects President Kufuor was undertaking including the Bui dam and the N1 highway which were continued. And indeed when Prof. Mills was going to commission them, he invited former President Kufuor to come and sit next to him and they commissioned the N1 project”.
“The Bui dam got finished in my time and I knew that it was started in President Kufuor’s time and so I invited President Kufuur to come and join me in commissioning it. That is the kind of spirit we want to see in Ghana, we don’t want the spirit where because one government was constructing community day schools, you abandon them all over the country, because one government was building hospitals they have been abandoned all over and I have made a promise to the people of Ghana that as soon as I come we will take up the abandoned projects and finish them so that they can benefit the people of Ghana”.
Former President John Mahama has on several occasions accused the Akufo-Addo administration of abandoning many of the projects started during his tenure in office.
Government, in response to these concerns, indicated that it has put measures in place to complete such projects.
President Nana Akufo-Addo had assured he will complete existing projects but many have expressed fears that the government may abandon infrastructural projects commenced by the John Mahama government as it has its own plan.
Source: citinewsroom.com
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I THOUGHT THEY WERE TELLING GHANAIANS THAT NANA HAS NOT DUG THE GROUND WITH EVEN A PICKAXE .......THEY SPEAK AND FORGET AND COME BACK TO HARM THEMSELVES WITH THEIR BOGUS SPEECHES.......THE HALLMARK OF A NONSERIOUS .....
mahama am very sure he doesn't know he has a credibility problem, Ghanaians don't trust him
So this is your message for Ghanaians, then i am sorry. Nana for 4 more years
who is going to waste his/her time to vote.tweaks.
I thought someone as President said in 2012 that who hires a new mason to continue with a building whose foundation has been completed by another mason? That it was best for the old mason to continue than get a new mason on board. Well time really changes but words do not. Watch what you say today for it might come back to haunt you in the future. If in 2012 no new mason was needed why do we need one in 2020 Mr. Mahama?
the list of projects by president kufour that were abandoned by mahama under his first 8years 1. kpone katamanso affordable housing project 2. sofoline projects 3. maternity building 600 unit bed at okomfo anokye 4. And many more I think this mahama man has short memories of himself.. God punish your evil mind towards this nation
Even the Legon Stadium that Prez. Kuffour left behind u couln't complete, how much more the numerous projects Nana is undertaking.
Elder,kindly ask him what happened to the President Kufuor's affordable housing projects in his 8 years in office.We do not have short memory as you think.
Sure, we trust you will and that is what Ghana needs and not those who will smear everything and come to do worse. First time when VAT was introduced in Ghana, there was a certain political party which took people to the street to oppose it. This political party came into power not to reverse it but to increase it. Another time, there was a political party which promised one time premium only to be voted into power to reverse the words. Ghana needs political parties which will begin to find sense in their opponents, after all are we not all working against poverty?
Who does Aspirant John Bahama think he is fooling? That he completed all outanding projects? Avatime Traditional Area that always voted masdively for NDC,what was your reward for us when you were in power? You abandoned the 1,000 capacity girls' dormitory at Avatime Vane SHS, kitchen,staff quarters all at the roofing stage under President Kuffour since 2008. Nana Addo is now completing them this year after 8 years of rude neglect. The magnificent additive was being painted and fittings fixed when I last visited the site a month ago. You sit on Facebook and rely on your lazy field officers who just jump from bed to tell you sugar-coated dreams to compound your credibility woes.HE WHO WEARS IT FEELS IT. WE ARE FEELING IT.