Former President John Dramani Mahama, flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has announced a $10 billion accelerated infrastructural plan, dubbed the Big Push, which he says will drive jobs and the entrepreneurial agenda when elected in December 2020.
“We are looking at what I call the BIG PUSH, injecting some $10 billion to dualise our roads, complete the remainder of the 200 Community Day Senior High Schools, finish all the hospital projects that have been left abandoned, and construct bridges to open up the country,” says Mr. Mahama.
Speaking in an interview on TV XYZ, the NDC flagbearer said the major plank of his second coming as President “is to deliver jobs to our young people.”
The $10 billion BIG PUSH will inject money into infrastructural development, and, according to the former President, “it will involve the construction industry, engineering and other professionals, and will bring a lot of artisans and everybody back into work.”
Mr. Mahama, who has been visiting and meeting traditional rulers and various interest groups in Savannah, Northern, Oti and Volta regions, also announced that delivering jobs to the young people of Ghana will be a major plank of his next government.
“If we do not do this urgently, we have a time bomb ticking away. Everything, every policy, and every policy will be focused on creating jobs for young people.”
The NDC flagbearer says his Agenda One Million Jobs will see the creation of between 300,000 and 400,000 jobs a year, in both the private and public sectors. “It is a very well-thought-out plan and will be the central promise of our manifesto,” he added.
John Dramani Mahama has, in another development, said he is committed to building a just and equal society, where all Ghanaians, regardless of their ethnicity or political affiliation, can benefit from opportunities in the country. He says the next NDC administration will bring back the peace and unity of Ghana by making all Ghanaians feel that they belong to the country, especially, as no group of persons own Ghana more than others.
Mr. Mahama made the comments when he spoke to journalists after registering for a voter ID card in Bole in the Savanna Region on Wednesday. He observed that President Nana Akufo-Addo is doing everything, including jeopardising the peace in the country, just to hang on to power.
Former President Mahama said Mr. Akufo-Addo is dictatorial and intolerant of dissenting views, adding that the closure of radio stations, harassment of journalists, and the alienation of some ethnic groups, including questioning their Ghanaian citizenship, does not bode well for Ghana’s democracy and the peace and stability of the country.
He said the deployment of soldiers by the government to prevent eligible Ghanaians from registering in the on-going registration of voters is a sign of desperation, and indicative of a government which does not care about handing over a peaceful and united country.
The NDC leader says the only way to stop the government from further dividing Ghanaians and toying with the peace, stability, and unity of the country, is for all eligible voters to be resolute and register for their voter ID cards, despite the machinations by the government to disenfranchise them.
Source: Johnmahama.org
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