Former President John Dramani Mahama says a new NDC government will not rush to initiate new projects if voted into power in 2024.
He said his government would rather invest the available resources to complete stalled and ongoing projects.
“I have said that we are not going to be in a hurry to start new projects. Whatever resources that we have, we are going to use it to continue and finish abandoned and ongoing projects so that we can start making use of them,” he said.
Mahama said this in Wa at the weekend when he addressed scores of people, including labour unions, at a town hall meeting as part of his two-day “Building Ghana We Want” tour in the Upper West Region.
The statement was in relation to some abandoned projects at the SD Dombo University for Business and Integrated Development Studies (SDD-UBIDS), which he promised to complete if he became president in 2025.
Mahama said the late President John Evans Atta Mills promised the then-Wa campus of the University for Development Studies (UDS) three key projects before he died.
They were an ultra-modern library, a lecture hall complex, and a students’ hostel facility.
He said he started those projects when he became president in 2013, but they had stalled.
“I know that all these projects are very important to facilitate teaching and learning in that university.
And so, when we come, we will continue those projects and complete them so that you can make use of them,” he said.
Talking about road infrastructure, former President Mahama indicated that “it is a shame” that the Wa-Tumu-Bolgatanga road was not yet constructed after it had passed through the hands of successive governments.
He indicated it was a prime road because it linked two regional capitals, serving as a short route for people travelling from Wa to Bolgatanga and vice versa. He promised to construct it when he became president.
On the Wa-Bole-Bamboi road, Mahama acknowledged that it was in a very deplorable state with potholes that served as death traps because it had not been maintained for many years after it was constructed during the former President Jerry John Rawlings’ regime.
He emphasized that it was in his interest to rehabilitate the Wa-Bole-Bamboi road to make it easier for people to transport patients from Bole to the Upper West Regional Hospital, which served as a major referral centre for health facilities in Bole.
As part of his visit to the region, the NDC flagbearer for the 2024 general election is expected to interact with the clergy, labour unions, traditional leaders, farmers, and leaders of some tertiary institutions.
Source: BBC
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And he has only 4 year, If he wins, a year to appoints his ministers, another years to change all the ceo of key goverments officials, 1 year for his ministers to setlled down then 3 years is gone,travelling up and down and rest 4 years finished, He doesn't have any problems because he is not asking you to vote him again, he will financially retires himself with his grandmother Maame Jane...Ghanaian youths open your eyes oooo, voting Mahama for 4 years, He is just coming to settled himself and go away finally.
John Mahama, you are from Bole. You have been vice president and president. When did you realize the WA-BOLE-BAMBOI road was in a deplorable state having been constructed since the era of Rawlings. Maybe Akuffo Addo and his family have come to teach you what it means to have one of your own as president having seen what they are doing at Kyebi, a district capital oooooo not a regional capital. Almost all their roads are having asphalt overlay, with security lights lining up their streets. You can insult Akuffo Addo 24/7 and give all sorts of nicknames. Fact is that you cannot go to Kyebi to dismantle or take away all the developments they sent there. The challenge has to with whether you will ever get the opportunity to be president again because as they say 'opportunity comes but once'.
he has nothing to offer
You will lose! Who told you that you will win. You are a loser. You will crying after 2024 election. Mark it down.
Attached Started and you couldn't finish just a library and lecture rooms all those years hmmm
This man is telling us should he win, honey moon nkoaa. He is not serious and Ghanaians should be reading the signs on the wall.
....start new project as a human being or president? 😁😁
Is it because you need honeymoon?