NDC Used Hardship to Win Votes, Now Fails to Deliver, backtracked on 24-hour economy – Hon Onyina-Acheampong

The National Democratic Congress government has failed to deliver on major promises it used as “campaign tools” in 2024, Hon. Akwasi Gyamfi Onyina-Acheampong, Member of Parliament for Kwabre East, has said.

Speaking on the current state of governance, Hon. Onyina-Acheampong said the NDC capitalized on economic hardships and “drastic decisions” taken by the previous NPP administration to win votes, but has since backtracked on its pledges.

“Based on these circumstances that we found ourselves in and we took some of these drastic decisions that Ghanaians were not happy about, the NDC government in twenty twenty-four used this as major campaign tools,” he said.

The MP said the NDC promised to implement a 24-hour economy using a “one-three-three” formula to create jobs.

“They said the economy was not going, we're not creating jobs so they will do twenty-four hour economy formula one-three-three. One job three shifts three people,” he stated.

“They said they will recruit people into the public sector because if you are going to do twenty-four hour economy means that you need to recruit a lot of police, a lot of security people. So they said they were going to do that.”

“Now they've backtracked. Twenty-four hour economy, no one is seeing it. It's not happening,” Hon. Onyina-Acheampong added.

He accused the government of failing cocoa and cashew farmers after promising better prices.

“They said cocoa farmers will enjoy and that they were going to increase from the three thousand one we gave to six thousand five and six thousand, sometimes they mention seven thousand… Cocoa farmers are crying because their price have been reduced from three thousand one to two thousand five.”

“Cashew farmers are crying because no one is buying cashew at the moment. The cashew is rotten in their farms,” he said.

On health infrastructure, Hon. Onyina-Acheampong said the NDC pledged to complete all Agenda 111 hospitals and operationalize at least ten.

“They said they will complete all the Agenda one one one hospitals. They said they will do ten. Even the ten, we don't know what has happened. Even the ones that were ninety-eight percent completed, they just had to operationalize it. That one too they have left it for one and a half years. It’s still in the bush and the buildings are deteriorating.”