Gov’t spent GH¢27bn on Social Interventions – Bawumia
The Vice-President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has stated the President Nana Addo
Dankwa Akufo-Addo-led authorities has to date spent GH¢27 billion on its foremost
coverage interventions.
He named a number of the interventions as the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO), free
SHS, the restoration of nursing and teacher trainee allowances and free water and
strength supply.
Dr Bawumia stated this whilst he addressed a assembly with instructors and
artisans at Mataheko withinside the Ablekuma Central municipality yesterday.
The Vice-President, who started a 4-day running excursion of the Greater Accra
Region yesterday, was accompanied by the Minister of Foreign Affairs and Regional
Integration, Ms Shirley Ayorkor Botchwey; a Deputy Minister of Roads and Highways,
Mr Anthony Abeifa Karbo; the Nasara Coordinator of the New Patriotic Party (NPP),
Mr Aziz Haruna Futa, and a few country wide and local celebration executives.
Dr Bawumia stated while former President John Mahama couldn’t pay the GH¢70
million education allowances for instructors and nurses, the NPP authorities was
capable of spend GH¢27 billion as it had constructed a stable financial system from
the vulnerable one it inherited from the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
While calling on instructors to maintain to aid and provide the authorities 4
more years to roll out greater well-thought-via regulations, he stated the
authorities had made training a prime cognizance of its management due to
the fact the opportunity of mass illiteracy might be greater expensive to the financial system.
To that end, he stated, the authorities cancelled application payments for tertiary
college students and additionally multiplied scholarships by 70 per cent.
He hinted that the authorities additionally had plans to cushion personal colleges
which had been hit difficult by the COVID-19 pandemic.
ICT lab
Prior to assembly the instructors, Vice-President Bawumia had inaugurated a newly
built facts and communications technology (ICT) laboratory and a library built by the
Member of Parliament (MP) for Ablekuma Central, Mr Ebenezer Nartey, on the
Abossey Okai Basic School.Dr Bawumia additionally addressed the chiefs and the
people of Sukura in Ablekuma Central.
Durbar Before touring the Ablekuma Central Constituency, Dr Bawumia had
addressed a durbar of the chiefs and the human beings at Ngleshie Amanfro and
Tuba in the Ga South municipality, for the duration of which he confident Ghanaians
that the 5 years of frequent power outages (dumsor) below the preceding
management might now no longer recur below the management of President
Akufo-Addo.
As a corporation leader, he stated, the President was focused and, therefore,
wanted 4 more years to maintain the development made to date to boost up
the improvement of the country.
Explaining the authorities’s regulations to the people, he stated in a bid to maintain
the free SHS policy for college kids to development to the tertiary level, the
authorities might offer guarantor-free loans for certified university students to finance
their training, which they might pay again later, saying that all they had to get entry
to the loans were their national identification (ID) cards.
He additionally stated there might be a national rent allowance scheme to aid
households to hire homes in the form of loans which they might pay again later with
ease.
Coupled with those regulations, the Vice-President stated, will be the national
transport recapitalisation scheme to make it simpler for automobile acquisition,
mainly for business shipping owners.
Jobs
The aspiring MP for Bortianor Ngleshie Amanfro, Mr Sylvester Tetteh, called on the
people to vote for him and President Akufo-Addo to maintain with improvement in the
area, announcing so far 1,500 youth in the constituency have been enrolled onto NABCO.
He stated 800 of them had been into youth in afforestation, whilst a hundred and fifty
had additionally benefited from government scholarships.
The Chief of Ngleshie Amanfro, Nii Kwashie Gborlor IV, appealed to the authorities to
facilitate the development of a proposed circuit courtroom docket and a network centre for the area.
He stated the NPP authorities had accomplished a lot, with the icing being the free SHS policy.
Nii Gborlor requested the authorities to interfere to solve the executive boundary disputes among Ngleshie Amanfro and its neighbouring communities.
Dr Bawumia additionally inspected the development of an Astroturf at Tuba and
delivered the aspiring NPP MP, Mr Tetteh, to the people.
Gov’t spent GH¢27bn on Social Interventions – Bawumia
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