The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, says the although his administration has only been in office for 15 months, the track record of Government, in the first year, indicates that the Agenda for Jobs, which formed the basis upon which he won the 2016 election, is on course.
According to President Akufo-Addo, “many of the identified flagship projects under the Agenda have already been launched, some are being effectively prepared, and others planned for their imminent take-off.
The President noted that the gloomy picture of the Ghanaian economy, inherited from the predecessor Mahama government, has been reversed, and it is on a defined road of revitalization.
“The defined actions include the effective management of the economy with assertive fiscal, monetary and debt controls; establishing a national digital addressing system; launching of the 10-point industrialization agenda, including the “One District one factory” initiative; establishing a national tax evasion hotline; creating the Development Authorities for the Northern, Middle Belt, Coastal zones of our country; instituting the Zongo Development Fund; and the facilitation of an electronic payments system, especially for salaries and utilities, he said.
President Akufo-Addo made this known on Wednesday, 11th April, 2018, when he launched Government’s 7-year Co-ordinated Programme of Economic and Social Development Policies, at the Accra International Conference Centre, Accra.
“The revamping of our economic and social infrastructure is on course; “dumsor” has ended, through the improvement of financing, generation, transmission and distribution of electrical power; the renovation and expansion of the railway network to northern Ghana is being pursued vigorously; and the revival of the transportation systems for the Volta Lake and the Eastern Corridor road have been initiated,” he said.
The President told the gathering that the fight against illegal mining is on course, with some of the rivers showing visible signs of recovery.
Touching on agriculture, he noted that the sector has exhibited the initial signs of transformation, with the implementation of the programme for Planting for Food and Jobs. The “one village, one dam” initiative, which, he said, will be launched momentarily to cover the northern parts of the country, would help bring farmers closer to sustainable, all-year-round agricultural production.
“The social sector of Ghana is working again, with the implementation of the free Senior High School policy, the strengthening and alignment of Technical and Vocational Education Institutions; the facilitation of the ICT Programme in schools, and the continuation of the rationalization and expansion of educational infrastructure,” he said.
President Akufo-Addo continued, “The restructuring of the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) has been initiated, with an intense stakeholder consultation process, whilst the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme has been expanded to cover more households. The Ghana School Feeding Programme has also been expanded to cover additional communities. The Affirmative Action Bill is under consideration by Cabinet, and the proportion of the Disability Fund of the District Common Fund has been increased.”
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