The Minority is unimpressed with the Akufo-Addo-led administration’s first two years in office.
Today, Monday, January 7 is exactly two years since Nana Addo Dankwa
Akufo-Addo took over the reins of the country after a third attempt at
the presidency.
He won the 2016 polls by an astounding 53.83 percent – one million more votes ahead of former president John Mahama.
The president was sworn into office on January 7, 2016
His presidency came with many promises of jobs, Free SHS, One district,
one factory, One district, One Dam, One District, One $1 million and
many others.
But halfway through his tenure as president, the opposition National
Democratic Congress (NDC) believes the country is retrogressing.
Minority Leader Haruna Iddrisu described the two years as one that has
been full of “significant failures in many aspects of governance and the
management of the economy.
“We have seen the president forcefully introduce Free SHS when the
country is yet to achieve free compulsory universal basic education
where literacy and numeracy are significant and important in the
development of human capital,” he added.
The Free SHS programme was implemented during the 2017/2018 academic year
The Tamale South MP said the lack of planning as regards the Free SHS
has seen the government struggle to adequately fund and finance the
programme which in his view will result in the churning out of
half-baked students.
He is appalled at the investments made in the country’s infrastructure for poverty alleviation.
He finds it surprising that although the Akufo-Addo-led administration
is the largest in the history of the Fourth Republic, nothing seems to
be working.
For him, the large number of the government pays no respect to the
public purse, and most of the offices are clearly engaged in an exercise
of duplication and redundancy.
“We don’t need a Ministry for Special Initiatives,” he added.
In a whole, Mr Iddrisu believes the Akufo-Addo-led administration has failed to live up to expectation.
