Frank Annoh-Dompreh, the Minority Chief Whip and Member of Parliament for the Nsawam-Adoagyiri Constituency, has slammed the John Mahama-led NDC government over their failure to revamp the Free SHS as promised Ghanaians.
The MP cited challenges within the Free Senior High School (Free SHS) programme, particularly regarding student feeding.
According to Annoh-Dompreh, the NDC promised to revamp Free SHS in opposition, but today students are being fed beans with gari and no oil.
He further revealed that the NPP Minority in Parliament will force President John Dramani Mahama to fulfil his promises to Ghanaians.
Annoh-Dompreh stressed that despite the Minority’s small numbers in Parliament, it will not sit back and allow ordinary Ghanaians to be shortchanged by the government.
Annoh-Dompreh disclosed that the caucus would remain vigilant and hold the government accountable to its campaign promises.
Speaking during a courtesy call at the Ankwane Dobrowo Palace, the MP mentioned some of the promises he claimed the ruling National Democratic Congress (NDC) made to Ghanaians but had failed to fulfil.
He stated, “The NDC promised to revamp Free SHS, but today, if you go to our schools and look at the feeding situation, there are still challenges. When students are served beans, there is no gari. If gari is added, there is no oil”.
Annoh-Dompreh added, “When we raise these concerns, they do not listen. Nana, we are small in numbers in Parliament; we are only 87, but we are a mighty Minority. They are many, but they have realised that they cannot take us for granted”.
“We will make sure we force President John Dramani Mahama to do all the things the NDC promised. They said they would reduce the prices of goods. Have they done it?” he questioned.
Also, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, the ranking member of Parliament’s Economy and Development Committee, has accused the John Mahama-led NDC of abandoning its major promises to Ghanaians.
Oppong Nkrumah challenged the NDC government to account for the broader set of promises it made.
According to Oppong Nkrumah, the government appears to have shifted its focus towards a few areas it can showcase.
He argued that the NDC government’s performance should instead be measured against the specific targets it set for itself in its 2025 and 2026 economic programmes.
Speaking on Citi Fm’s Eyewitness News, Oppong Nkrumah stated, “There are only about three games in town. Everything else that they listed, literally they have abandoned it”.
“You were here when they said we were going to build 600 CHPS compounds in the first year, and now they said they were going to do about 35 Agenda 111s,” he said.
“In sports, they said we’re going to build about seven stadia in, I think, the first or second year,” he said.
“The major outcomes that they listed, they’ve literally abandoned all of them,” he said.
Oppong Nkrumah also linked the situation partly to the government’s fiscal strategy.
He argued that revenue mobilisation had not grown strongly enough to match the size and demands of the economy, adding that the limited fiscal space has made it difficult for the government to pursue the wide range of programmes it initially promised,
“We have a theory of why they have abandoned all of those and are just clinging onto about two or three things as evidence that their government is performing,” he said.
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