The New Patriotic Party (NPP) as the decision government scarcely botch the chance to tout their accomplishments and social mediations for the nation. Driven by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, the gathering has supported a second term for him with the guarantee of improving the lives of residents subsequently their most recent term ‘4More for Nana’.
Following this, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo was on Saturday, 27 June, 2020 acclaimed as the presidential applicant of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for the December 7, 2020 decisions.
The applause was done at an uncommon National Council meeting of the gathering which is in consonance with Article 13 (2) (1) of the NPP’s constitution that accommodates praise when there is a sole presidential competitor at the end of designations.
VP Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has been held as his running mate for the fourth time.
Talking in the wake of being chosen as the favored running mate, Dr. Bawumia described a portion of the accomplishments of the Akufo-Addo-drove government.
As indicated by him, the decision NPP has than additional for Ghanaians in the three and half years they have been in power.
Here are a portion of the accomplishment he related:
We have finished the sufferings related with dumsor
In February 2020 during a State of the Nation Address, President Akufo-Addo reported his legislature has settled the issue of eractic power gracefully the nation endured during the Mahama-drove organization.
As indicated by the president, each progression should have been taken including arrangements and understanding have been routed to guarantee that Ghanaians appreciate stable force gracefully.
Decrease of power tax by 10.9 % contrasted with the combined increment of 264% under the NDC.
Dr. Bawumia made notice that in January 2018, President Akufo-Addo reported that as from January that year, non-private clients of power in the nation would appreciate a normal of 14% decrease in power duties.
“The non-private duty rate, which is the rate which incorporates every one of you here, is being decreased by a normal of 14%. For stylists, it is being decreased by 18%; for stylists and cosmetologists, 15.7%, and for tailors, 9.8%.”
“A normal bill a year ago was GH¢562 per month. With this decrease from January, it is coming down to GH¢473 per month, which implies GH¢88 has been taken from the power tax that you pay. We need to empower personal business, and make business remain on its feet.” The president clarified.
As indicated by the Vice President, this was done to help private organizations in the nation.
We have additionally diminished levy by half for the long stretches of April, May, June this year.
As a feature of the push to diminish monetary weights on Ghanaians following the episode of coronavirus, government in the long stretch of April 2020, declared a half cut in power bills for business and private purchasers the nation over.
The 50 percent of was for the time of April, May, June as government utilized March 2020 bill as a benchmark.
We have given water to house in April, May, and June.
Around the same time of April, government likewise ingested the expense of water bill for Ghanaians for the long stretches of April, May and June 2020 after the episode of coronavirus.
Oil costs have expanded considerably the rate in the open segment.
We have enlisted more than 550, 000 individuals.
Under the grant plot, the education costs of 918 inhabitants and senior occupants enlisted by the College of Physicians and Surgeons for the 2019/2020 scholarly year, will be completely paid for by the government.
Expanded the portion of the region normal reserve to the incapacitated
Absolved Kayaye from advertises tolls.
We have guaranteed execution of our guarantee to utilize half of the people who deal with the nation’s tollgate from among people with handicaps.
We have reestablished the educators preparing remittance, reestablished nursing preparing recompense
The past National Democratic Congress (NDC) government rejected the remittance in 2014, under which nursing students got at any rate GH¢450.00 each quarter.
In any case, during the 2016 electioneering time frame, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo vowed to reestablish the remittance for the students to experience a smooth preparing to serve the country.
In 2017, government declared viable September 1 of that year every recipient student will get GH¢400.00.
During the dispatch of the reclamation of the stipend by the President in the then Brong Ahafo area, medical caretakers couldn’t keep down their delight when they got an alarm of the recompense exchange as the greater part of them interfered with the president’s location to jubilate.
Reestablished the book and specialist stipend.
We are paying proficient remittances to instructors. multi month compensation back payments strategy for educators have been abrogated.
We are retaining the expense of BECE, WASCCE tests enrollment.
Government declared it would ingest the expenses for understudies sitting the 2020 West African Senior School Certificate Examinations (WASSCE).
This was declared when the last year SHS and second year Gold Track understudies arranged to come back to class following the conclusion of schools due to COVID-19.
The president demonstrated that 75.4 million cedis will be spent on the activity.
We have sent 40 understudies from our Zongo and downtown networks on grant to Cuba to consider medication.
In November, 2019, Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia declared that 40 understudies from Ghana’s Zongo and Inner Cities have been chosen to experience further clinical investigations in Cuba.
This was a piece of government’s pledge to help support the Human Resource limit of less special networks.
20 females and 20 men were chosen.
We have canceled 15 assessments including charges on money related help, land, and carrier, etc.
We have decreased import obligations by 50 percent by and large and 30% on vehicles
We have made it simpler through digitization to apply for a visa, driver’s permit, to acquire snappy benefits when you resign.
Acquisition of power with the ECG application
Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, in February 2020, propelled a versatile application intended to make the acquisition of power credits and the installment of bills progressively advantageous for clients of the Electricity Company of Ghana (ECG).
Known as ‘ECG Power’, the application, structured in-house by the ICT staff of ECG, will make it feasible for 2.8 million out of the organization’s 3.8 million clients to make installments for power bought and benefits rendered by the Company. This figure is required to ascend before the year’s over when old meters are supplanted with keen ones.
Clients of cell phones can download the application from the Google Play Store or Apple App Store, make a record, include the meter number, and top up or take care of tabs utilizing versatile cash wallets. Clients of Non-PDAs, famously known as ‘Sweet potato’ telephones are not forgotten about; they can dial *226# and follow the prompts to appreciate the administration.
Made it simpler to apply for grants.
Starting April 1, 2020, the online stage, www.scholarship.xn- – com-to0a, as indicated by government, will permit candidates to apply from the solace of their homes, take an inclination test and be met in their own locale without coming to Accra.
The Vice President said the new framework would guarantee there was straightforwardness in the grant grants and help lessen the danger of debasement in the grant application process.
We have made it simpler to send cash from individuals through versatile cash interoperability.
Dr. Bawumia again uncovered the dispatch of the versatile cash interoperability framework by the Ghana Chamber of Telecommunications along with the Government of Ghana, Central Bank, GhIPSS and business puts money on May 10, 2018.
The Mobile Money Payment Interoperability is the administration, which permits immediate and consistent exchange of assets starting with one versatile cash wallet then onto the next portable cash wallet across systems, which was created by Ghana Interbank Payment and Settlement Systems (GhIPSS) with dynamic cooperation of the Mobile Industry.
After the second period of the Financial Inclusion was finished in November 2018, it made Ghana one of only a handful barely any nations in Africa to accomplish the Universal Interoperability, guaranteeing associating of ledgers, MoMo wallet and ezwich, along these lines permitting consistent progression of budgetary exchanges.
We have made it simpler to restore your NHIS enrollment, to enlist a business and we have diminished the debasement related with acquiring administrations from the open assistance.
We have spared NHIS from breakdown
The National Health Insurance Authority (NHIA) has made generous installments to specialist co-ops to decrease the extraordinary cases due them.
In March, Ken Ofori-Atta reported in Parliament that the legislature had made accessible a measure of GHS300 million to the Authority as a major aspect of measures to give liquidity to human services suppliers and the pharmaceutical business to help battle the COVID-19 pandemic at present confronting the nation.
Hence, as at April 7, 2020, scarcely seven days after the declaration, the NHIA has discharged GHS 207, 539, 276.62 Million so far to its credentialed specialist co-ops.
The on-going installments will move lower level suppliers (CHPS, wellbeing focuses and maternity homes) claims paid near November 2019.
We are giving GH¢600 million to little scope organizations
Around 200,000 organizations have been anticipated by the National Board for Small-Scale Industries (NBSSI) to profit by the payment of the GH¢600 million delicate advance plan reported by the President for smaller scale, little and medium undertakings (MSMEs) taking into account the effect of the coronavirus sickness (COVID-19) on them.
Administration of Ghana CAP Business Support Scheme (CAP BuSS) has gotten more than 170,000 effective enlistments on the online gateway, with around 65 percent of this number effectively finishing applications after stretched out the cutoff time to 26 June 2020.
We have made seeds, manures, and augmentation administrations accessible to ranchers while lessening swelling and diminishing loan fees it a large portion of the devaluation of the cedi.
We have paid stipends to UN workforce increment from military and police 31 dollars to 35 dollars.
Free SHS was made conceivable with the economy supervisory group.
The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, on Tuesday, September 12, 2017, propelled the Free Senior High School strategy, depicting the program as the way to making a general public of chances and strengthening for each resident.
President Akufo-Addo noticed that he made the Free SHS promise “since I realize that information and ability are not for the rich and favored alone, and that free training broadens the entryways of chances to each youngster, particularly those whose gifts are captured in view of destitution.”
About 1.2 million kids have profited by the Free Senior High School (SHS) program.
To help the expanding quantities of understudies under the program, 8,000 instructors were conveyed inside a similar period.
Cleaning of the financial area
The Vice President brought back recollections of how the Bank of Ghana (BoG) disavowed the licenses of 9 all inclusive banks, 347 microfinance organizations, 39 microcredit organizations, 15 reserve funds and credits organizations, eight account house organizations, and two non-bank foundations somewhere in the range of 2017 and 2019.
This was a piece of government endeavors to reestablish trust in the banking and concentrated store taking divisions and to likewise resolve wiped out budgetary foundations whose proceeded with presence presented dangers to the enthusiasm of investors.
As indicated by Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta the expense of inheritance obligations and banking segment tidy up added up to GHc33billion.
Introducing the spending articulation and money related arrangement of the administration of Ghana for the year finishing 31st December 2020 in Parliament he kept up that gains so far made have been significant.
Source: TheBBCghana.Com
