Bono Regional Chairman of NPP, Kwame Baffoe
The Bono Regional Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party, Kwame Baffoe, has stated that the construction of the new Ghana Infectious Disease Centre, under the Akufo-Addo regime, gives credence to the fact that the current administration believes in and implement its promises.
On the contrary, he says the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and its flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama, have also proven that they do not take Ghanaians serious and therefore do not honour their promises.
Abronye, as the NPP Chairman is called, noted that even though the NDC, ahead of the 2012 general election, promised to build an infectious centre, it failed to honour the promise.
“In 2012 when John ‘Dariga’ Mahama, who is seeking re-election in 2020 was President and flag bearer of the NDC, at page 21 of their manifesto, dubbed ‘Advancing the Better Ghana Agenda’, headlined “Health For All”, John Mahama and the NDC promised to establish New Infectious Disease Management Centers.
“Lo and behold, the good people of Ghana gave John Mahama the benefit of the doubt and bought this and several other unachievable promises he made, considering the fact that he was then an incumbent president. For this promise and several others, Ghanaians voted for him and the NDC at large. Fast forward today, it is clear that throughout the tenure of John Mahama and the NDC, they could not even construct a single disease infectious management centre,” he said in a release.
Akufo-Addo keeps promise
Abronye stated that, while John Mahama refused to build one, President Akufo-Addo has built an infectious centre for the nation, giving credence to his character as a covenant-keeping President.
“Fast forward again in 2020 under the distinguished leadership of the current President Nana Addo, he made a similar promise at the infantry stage when the nation was engulfed with an unforeseen global pandemic, the novel coronavirus (Covid 19), that he will superintend the construction of an Infectious Disease Management Centre that will be constructed in a space of 100 days.
Truly to his words, the 100-bed Infectious Centre has been delivered with the help of the private sector at a cost of $7.5 million,” he said.
“This is the less talk but more action and results oriented Nana Addo you can trust and is seeking your mandate to continue with his good governance,” he added.
He has thus asked Ghanaians to reject John Mahama at the polls this year since he cannot be trusted.
