{"id":17061,"date":"2020-08-20T22:40:29","date_gmt":"2020-08-20T22:40:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinegh.com\/?p=17061"},"modified":"2020-08-20T22:40:31","modified_gmt":"2020-08-20T22:40:31","slug":"mahama-challenges-govt-to-a-debate-on-infrastructure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.kumasionlinetv.com\/?p=17061","title":{"rendered":"Mahama challenges gov\u2019t to a debate on Infrastructure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Former President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama has challenged the current administration to a debate on investment in the various sectors of Ghana\u2019s economy.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>His challenge is on the back of the Vice President\u2019s call on the NDC to name one social intervention the NDC has introduced since the party was in power for eight years from 2009 to 2016 at NPP Annual National Delegates Conference in Accra.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>But speaking on the issue for the first time, the former President who doubles at the flag-bearer of the National Democratic Congress in the impending election said the debates should be on investments in real sectors and not social interventions.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cYou must assure the people of jobs; if people are working and getting money what would they need free for if they can afford to pay. And somebody says, let\u2019s have a competition on social intervention; social interventions are consumption. They should say let\u2019s have a competition in who invested more in the real sectors than the other. We were doing 4.7 percent of GDP investment in the real sector, today they can hardly achieve 3 percent,\u201d Mr.&nbsp;Mahama&nbsp;said during a meeting with the Association of Road Contractors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>To him, government\u2019s failure to pay contractors is just as a result of the government\u2019s believe that anyone who worked under him was politically afilliated.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>\u201cAll the projects we did, all the roads and interchange; everything, the new Kumasi airport, Terminal 3 all those things we did with 54 billion Cedis. Today, in three and a half years, 140 billion Cedis has been spent and they say they can\u2019t pay you two billion; it is deliberate, this government does not intend to pay you. And so, my brothers and sisters, it is obvious that the decision not to pay you is political; I cannot ascribe any reason to it because they have a mistaken believe that everybody who worked under John Mahama and&nbsp;NDC&nbsp;must be politically affiliated.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Social intervention programs have become key in the current political landscape, with many wondering why the governing NPP which is perceived to be from a capitalist orientation, interested in the introduction of social intervention \u2013 National Health Insurance Scheme and&nbsp;Free SHS&nbsp;topmost- which is of a socialist characteristics of which the opposition NDC\u2019s prides itself.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Source:\u00a0MyNewsGh.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama has challenged the current administration to a debate on investment in the various sectors of Ghana\u2019s economy. 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