NPP presidential candidate Nana Akufo Addo has made known his fear of the Mahama campaign snapping up any definite policy he intends to implement upon winning the election because of the NDC's knack of claiming ideas which they did not conceive.
Addressing NPP faithfuls at a fundraiser at Hartford, the veteran politician however asserted “.....We are going to do everything within our power as a government to provide incentives for the private sector in Ghana to really take off, because that is the solution to the social and economic development of our country. That is what our party stands for and that is what we are going to do when we come into office†adding “I cannot accept that the countries of East Asia, can within a generation transform their lives from the same conditions as ours, and are today, in terms of economic activity and performance, first world countries, whereas we are third world players. I cannot accept that. We can do much better than our current circumstances.â€
According to Nana Addo, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) has the plan to make the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) efficient once again but is now careful to lay out concrete proposals as was done with the free SHS concept in 2012 which the NDC grabbed as theirs yet failed to roll it out on the grand scale the NPP had planned.
The one time Foreign Affairs minister informed fellow citizens that his government was gearing up to lead the industrial development of the country to create jobs while the provision of basic social infrastructure to enable quality education and healthcare on the other hand shall be pursued relentlessly.
“We have not retreated from the policy of including secondary education a part of basic education. We are committed to making access as widely as possible by making it free for children in our public school system. It continues to be extremely important for the development of the country†Nana Addo said of the Free SHS policy.
He pledged his government will put in place measures to address the 22,000 teacher deficit (from primary to Senior High School level)currently prevailing in the country.