John Dramani Mahama, a former president, has pledged that the incoming National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration will start a serious campaign against corruption.
According to Mr. Mahama, one of the ways that public resources are wasted is through corruption.
The NDC flagbearer candidate emphasized to NDC delegates at Garu in the Upper East Region that anyone found engaged in corrupt activities under his administration will be dealt with regardless of their party affiliation.
“NDC is going to come into office, and we are going to launch a strong fight against corruption because we all know that corruption is one of the waste pipes in this country. People who appropriate the money of the state must be brought to book and sanctioned and NDC is going to do that”.
“It doesn’t matter whether the people are our own or from some other party, we will make sure that the sword is slammed equally and anyone who takes the people’s money must suffer for it.”
If he wins reelection as president in the 2024 elections, Mr. Mahama also pledged to fix the National Health Insurance Scheme and the flawed Free SHS program of Akufo-Addo.He claimed that revising the two laws would improve the policies and improve the lot of Ghanaians.“Free SHS is not working properly, the benefit it is supposed to give the parents, they are not getting. I can tell you today that the money we are spending on our children to go to school is far more than when we used to pay school fees”.“We are going to repair the free SHS and make it better and create the situation when where school reopens, all the children will go together and when they vacate they all come home together.”
