The 2024 Flagbearer for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), former President John Dramani Mahama has assured that the next NDC government will not establish any rival institution such as a school or hospital in the area where there are already functioning rival mission schools or hospitals.
According to former President John Dramani Mahama, instead of building a new institution, he would rather invest the money to expand those already existing mission institutions.
“We are proposing that in the future, we increase the influence of churches in the management of mission schools to ensure that the chairman of the governing board of the schools is a member of the church that established the school”.
He made this known when he had fruitful interactions with the Christian Ecumenical Council made up of the Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council (GPCC), Christian Council of Ghana, Council of Independent Churches, Apostolic Fathers and the National Council of Charismatic and Christian Churches (NACC) in Accra.
President John Mahama stated that the NPP administration has been putting up new institutions in an area where there are already existing and performing mission institutions which he said, amounts to duplication of facilities and resources. “This could have been invested in the existing institutions to make them vibrant”.
President John Dramani Mahama revealed that the next NDC government would give more support to mission hospitals to help them expand their infrastructure to enable them to operate effectively and efficiently.
Mr. Mahama assured of the involvement of churches in the development of the economy adding that, the next NDC administration would support churches to invest in areas such as textile, agriculture, and agribusiness to create more jobs to address the growing youth unemployment rate in the country.
Corruption he indicated, had eaten deep into Ghana’s fabric and is affecting development which the government now sees as normal because those who engaged in the act are always shielded and protected by the very people in authority.
Mr. Mahama therefore assured to fight the canker of corruption and defeat it when given the chance to rule. “We will retrieve stolen monies and hold people accountable, but we are not going to pursue regime accountability.”
He therefore called on the clergy to speak against any action that tended to create unrest and destroy the 2024 general elections.
