[ 2016-07-27 ]

I fear Mahama will steal my ideas – Akufo Addo
The New Patriotic Party’s (NPP), flagbearer Nana
Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo wants to keep ideas about
how to revitalise the National Health Insurance
Scheme (NHIS) close to his chest because he fears
President John Mahama will “steal” them.






Speaking at an NPP fundraising event in Hartford,
United States of America, Nana Akufo-Addo claimed
the Mahama-led administration has mastered in
copying NPP’s policies such as the free Senior
High School concept which was the toast of his
2012 campaign.

Nana Akufo-Addo claimed that under the Kufuor-led
administration, “we were responsible for the
largest social intervention in our history”, a
reference to the establishment of the NHIS, adding
that “it has gone pear-shaped under the hands of
President Mahama.”

He assured that “we will pay a lot of attention
to revitalising the NHIS. It is important that we
do so, and find sustainable methods of making sure
that the financing of the scheme is secure.”

Nana Akufo-Addo, however, stopped short of
outlining policy initiatives aimed at securing
sustainable financing for the NHIS, explaining
that “I dare not say them in public, because if
I do, tomorrow, President Mahama will take them as
his own.
Every time I open my mouth to say something, the
next day he parrots it. So I have to be
careful.”

The former Foreign Affairs Minister assured
Ghanaians that his government would pay particular
attention to providing the basic social
infrastructural needs of Ghanaians, by ensuring
access to quality education and healthcare.

According to Nana Akufo-Addo; “whilst focusing
on the industrial development of Ghana, which
would create jobs for the masses, we cannot ignore
the basic social infrastructural needs of our
country.”

On the Free SHS policy, the NPP flagbearer
reiterated that “we have not retreated from the
policy of including secondary education a part of
basic education.
We are committed to making access as wide 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.”

In furtherance of this, Nana Akufo-Addo indicated
that his government would put in place measures to
address the 22,000 teacher deficit (from primary
to senior high school level) currently prevailing
in the country.

To ensure the realisation of these policies, he
explained that “we can only do so by rapid
economic growth and expansion, and that has to be
the way forward.
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.”

Nana Akufo-Addo committed himself to the formation
of a “solid, first class government, and a new
direction for the people of Ghana. We will do it
not for ourselves but for the current and future
generations that are coming.”

Source - Starrfmonline.com.

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