New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has accused the Mahama administration of failing to honour its commitments to cocoa farmers, saying its promise to raise the cocoa price to GHC 6500 has proved to be a scam.
Speaking at an NPP conference in Kumasi on Saturday, October 3, Dr Bawumia said the government had also failed to deliver on a series of other promises made to Ghanaians.
“The promise of automatic posting of teachers and nurses and the improvement in their conditions of service has turned out to be another scam.
“The promise to cancel teacher licensure examinations has proven to be another scam just as the promise to pay all Menzgold customers and customers of all financial institutions which collapsed. Even their much-touted Nkoko nkitikiti program has failed,” he said.
Dr Bawumia also criticised the government’s record on illegal mining, commonly known as galamsey, an issue that has affected successive administrations during Ghana’s Fourth Republic.
He described illegal mining as a complex national problem that required serious action rather than slogans.
“Yet this NDC government made many promises to Ghanaians. It promised to resolve it in months and restore our polluted water bodies to their natural state. Ghanaians are reminded every day of how the NDC and its senior officials, many of whom are Cabinet Ministers and top CEOs today, lambasted the NPP government and told Ghanaians that they possessed the magic to end galamsey instantly if voted into office. Today, under their watch, in nearly two years, galamsey has grown embarrassingly worse,” he said.
The NPP flagbearer said the situation formed part of the record of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) after two years in office.
“As our elders say ‘Agoro no be so a na afri anopa’. Ghana deserves better. I assure you that when the NPP assumes the reigns of office in 2029, by the grace of God, we shall bring to bear the lessons of our successes and challenges to do a way better job in these and other areas than this NDC government is doing,” he said.
