The 2016 presidential candidate of the New
Patriotic Party, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has assured the thousands of
nursing and teacher trainees across the country of the full restoration of their
allowances, when, God-willing, he wins this year’s elections.Nana
Akufo-Addo, who was buttressing remarks made by his running mate, Alhjai Dr.
Mahamudu Bawumia, stressed that “you heard Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia. He has made a
commitment I want to underwrite. We are going to restore your allowances in
full, when we come to power, God-willing, in 2017, as we are going to do with
teacher trainees”.
According to Nana Akufo-Addo, the training of more
healthcare and education professionals is of the utmost importance, hence the
restoration of these allowances, adding that “Ghana needs all the nurses and
teachers we can get, (if we are) to build a solid healthcare and educational
system.”
The NPP flagbearer made this known when he visited the Pantang
Nursing Training School, on Tuesday, September 20, 2016, as part of his tour of
the Madina constituency, on day-1 of his 4-day tour of the Greater Accra
Region.
Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, who first addressed the nursing students,
told them that with just GH¢20 billion in revenues (loans and taxes), and
without the benefit of oil revenues, the NPP was able to pay nursing trainee and
teacher trainee allowances.
However, having inherited an oil economy, and
with GH¢200 billion in revenues, Nana Akufo-Addo's running mate bemoaned the
cancellation of the teacher trainee and nursing trainee allowances by the Mahama
government.
Dr. Bawumia, in reassuring the nursing students, noted that
in the very first budget of an Akufo-Addo government in 2017, “the restoration
of nursing trainee and teacher allowances will be a line item in the budget. We
shall restore your allowances in full. It will not be a propaganda restoration,
but a full restoration of your allowances.”
We have to change
Mahama
For Ghana to move forward and achieve its true potential, Nana
Akufo-Addo indicated that “we have one task only. We are going to change the
government of John Dramani Mahama, and bring a government that is going to work
for the people of Ghana, and make sure that we have our priorities
right.”
The NPP leader stressed that “Ghana is not a poor land. A land
previously called Gold Coast cannot be poor. We are a nation with an abundance
of human and natural resources, and, yet we are hungry. That cannot be right. We
are coming to change all of these circumstances, so we can bring progress and
prosperity to all Ghanaians.”
He urged the nursing students to help take
the NPP’s message of hope to every part of the constituency, and vote massively
for the party’s parliamentary candidate for Madina, Alhaji Boniface Abubakar
Saddique.
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