Flagbearer of the main opposition National Democratic Congress, John Dramani Mahama has pledged to “work hard” to provide jobs for the youth and reduce the high cost of living in the country if he is re-elected president in the 2020 elections.
The former leader on Facebook said “I am ready, very ready! I am ready to work hard to provide jobs for our youth and reduce the high cost of living in the country.
“We see the cracks in the foundation of our economy. The New Patriotic Party told tall tales, with lofty rhetoric, about the prospects for our economy. They went to town over my administration’s decision to seek financing for infrastructure projects by borrowing on the capital markets.
“Yet, when we did so, it involved the well-planned, well-managed use of credit facilities to upgrade our ailing physical infrastructure to meet the needs of a modern middle-income economy.
“The fruits of those efforts are visible all around the country – in the new clinics and district hospitals, in affordable housing, in the new roads and rail lines, in our expanded energy generation capacity, in the mechanisation of our agriculture, in our access to potable water supply, in telecommunications, in our aviation industry.
“All these and more were made possible by our well-thought out policy agenda – so many, that the government has had to hijack our projects to commission and recommissioning all over the place.”
Below is the Facebook post:
Source: Adomonline.com