Former Trade Minister Alan John Kyerematen has
laughed off claims by the John Mahama-led government that it has executed
massive infrastructural development in the country.President John Mahama
at the start of his tour of the Western Region in August boasted of
“unprecedented” infrastructural development under his government.
The
president specifically mentioned water, power, education, healthcare, and roads
as the areas that have witnessed massive infrastructural development in the last
four years of governance.
Earlier in June this year at the 24th
anniversary of the National Democratic Congress, Mr Mahama said,
“…notwithstanding the challenges of a lower-middle income economy in an area of
global economic volatility, we have still striven to ensure massive
infrastructural development”.
But the former New Patriotic Party
presidential hopeful Alan John Kyerematen said every government in the history
of Ghana has executed infrastructural development during its
reign.
“Every government builds roads, hospitals, schools, dams etc so
what’s the plenty touting of developmental projects? Our record in
infrastructural development is second to none,” he said Addressing NPP
supporters in the Saboba District of the Northern Region, Mr Kyerematen dared
the NDC government to mention any government that assumed the reign of Ghana
without undertaking infrastructural development.
According to him, the
NDC has no legacy for Ghanaians, hence its continuous touting of infrastructural
development, with no message of employment. “Has the National Democratic
Congress Party stated anywhere in their campaign that they will create jobs
aside touting their infrastructural development?”, he questioned.
He thus
urged the people to vote the NPP into power to solve the unemployment situation,
saying “ for you the unemployed person, your government is the New Patriotic
Party because it is only us that have plans to create jobs for you”.
Mr
Kyerematen said the NPP’s policy on one dam in one community is a job creation
project that would be the catalyst for irrigation farming in the various
communities. He therefore encouraged the electorates to vote Nana Akufo-Addo and
the New Patriotic Party into power to witness an upsurge in
employment. |
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