According to Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) thinks the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) objectives are unattainable.
According to him, the NDC has a habit of labeling promises made by the Akufo-Addo administration as “impossible.”
Dr. Bawumia made the remark in a Facebook post to chastise NDC leaders who have expressed reservations about the government’s ambitious Agenda 111 hospital projects.
“When we proposed the restoration of teacher trainee allowances, they said it was impossible. When we proposed the restoration of nursing trainee allowances, they said it was impossible. When we proposed free Senior High School (Free SHS) and free TVET, they said it was impossible… When we proposed Agenda 111 to construct district hospitals in all districts and new regional hospitals, they are saying it is impossible,” he wrote.
The government intends to invest more than GHS600 million to build 111 district and regional hospitals in areas where such facilities do not exist.
On Tuesday [August 17, 2021], the President, Nana Akufo-Addo, cut the sod for the project’s start at Trede in the Atwima Kwanwoma District of the Ashanti Region.
Some NDC officials have already expressed reservations about the plan.
Former President John Dramani Mahama, for example, has characterized the hospital construction as an afterthought.
“It is only an afterthought that suddenly they realized that they must be doing some infrastructure and Agenda 111 has been conjured with no transparency as to how the money for the projects are going to be procured. Is it going to lead to more borrowing when we already have such a high level [of debt],” he said.
Furthermore, former Minister of Health Alex Segbefia has said that the project is just a repackaged concept that may never see the light of day.
“We have been building hospitals in districts for a long period. From Rawlings right to the time of Mills, and to the time Mahama, so this idea of every district should have a hospital is not new. You decide to package it differently and call it Agenda 111.”
Dr. Bawumia responded, saying, “Fortunately, we have been blessed with a party and a president with a can-do attitude that can make many things that seem impossible possible.”
Below is the full post by Dr. Bawumia
THE PARTY OF “IT IS IMPOSSIBLE”
Dear Friends,
1. When we proposed the restoration of teacher trainee allowances they said it was impossible.
2. When we proposed the restoration of nursing trainee allowances they said it was impossible.
3. When we proposed the Sinohydro barter agreement they said it was impossible.
4. When we proposed a reduction in electricity prices they said it was impossible.
5. When we proposed the introduction of drones to deliver medicines and blood they said it was impossible.
6. When we proposed one district one factory they said it was impossible.
7. When we proposed one constituency one ambulance they said it was impossible.
8. When we proposed NABCO they said it was impossible.
9. When we proposed one village one dam they said it was impossible.
10. When we proposed the Zongo Development Fund they said it was impossible.
11. When we proposed the National Digital Property Address System they said it was impossible.
12. When we proposed a policy of no guarantors for student loans they said it was impossible.
13. When we proposed Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo as President, they said it was impossible.
14. When we proposed Agenda 111 to construct district hospitals in all districts and new regional hospitals they are saying it is impossible.
15. When we proposed the reduction in taxes they said it was impossible.
16. When we proposed free Senior High School (Free SHS) and free TVET, they said it was impossible
Thankfully, we have been blessed with a party and a president with a can-do spirit that can make many things that appear impossible to be possible.
God bless our homeland Ghana.
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