Dr Bawumia: NDC is opposed to transformational ideas

Vice-President Mahamadu Bawumia has described the opposition National Democratic Congress(NDC) as nation wreckers who are always opposed transformational ideas that will move Ghana forward.

According to Dr Bawumia, ushering such a party once again into power will spell doom for the country.

He has therefore urged the electorate to reject former President John Dramani Mahama and all NDC parliamentary candidates in this year’s general election.

Addressing the chiefs and people of Takoradi on Tuesday, the Vice-President recounted some laudable policies, programmes and initiatives initiated by the Akufo-Addo government, which the “nation wreckers swore would never happen and vehemently kicked against”.

Some of them include the Free SHS, Nations Builders Corps (NABCO), restoration of nurses and teacher trainee allowances and the drone medical delivery system.

Others, according to the Vice-President, are the One-District-One-Factory (IDIF), One-Village-One-Dam, Zongo Development Fund and the recent compilation of the new voters’ register.

Stiff opposition

Dr Bawumia also cited the NDC’s opposition to the government’s decision for final year SHS students to go back to school to write their final exams, amid the Covid-19 pandemic. He added that the government was not surprised when the NDC again vehemently opposed signing of the Synohydro Master Financing Agreement, to the point of petitioning the International Monetary Fund to stop it.

The opposition to the Synohydro agreement, meant to make life comfortable for Ghanaians, according to the Vice-President, did not come as a surprise because the government was aware the NDC was just following a trend of opposing transformational ideas.

He noted that in spite of the incessant opposition, the government is focused on implementing its transformational ideas.

“If we had listened to the NDC, none of these ideas would have become a reality. Government’s agenda of making 2020 a ‘Year of Roads’, thanks to the Synohydro deal, would have suffered a drawback. We just ignored them and persevered,” he said.

“We said we were going to implement Free SHS; NDC said it is was impossible. We made it happen. We said we were going to compile a new voters’ register; NDC kicked against it. We made it happen,” the Vice-President added.

Ghanaians at heart

According to Dr Bawumia, unlike the NDC, the NPP has the interest and well-being of Ghanaians at heart. He therefore called for “four more years for this human-centred and development-oriented government to do more”.

The Vice-President had earlier in the day visited the Western Regional House of Chiefs to inaugurate their newly constituted office complex.

He urged the chiefs to be at the forefront of fighting outmoded customs and practices like land and chieftaincy disputes which retard development.

Source: dailystatesman.com.gh/Yaaba Yamikeh