President John Dramani Mahama has promised more jobs for the nation\u2019s youth, if re-elected to serve a second four-year term of office.<\/p>\n
He hinted that 400,000 of them were going to be recruited under a youth employment programme his government was going to run.<\/p>\n
They would be engaged in community health, policing and fire service, alongside training in various trades and vocations.<\/p>\n
President Mahama, who was addressing a political rally in Kade as part of this six-day election campaign in the Eastern Region, said there would also be a sanitation module.<\/p>\n
He told the people that the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS) was not collapsing as their political opponents would want everybody to believe and said the reverse was indeed the case.<\/p>\n
The scheme had seen substantial growth in membership, he said, adding that as of the close of last year, 29 million had attended the health facilities, using the NHIS cards.<\/p>\n
President Mahama said the figure compared with the 2005-2008 total of nine million hospital attendance, clearly showed that the claim that the NHIS was crumbling was completely false.<\/p>\n
He indicated that more money from oil receipts would be put into the health insurance scheme to enhance its sustainability amid the tremendous expansion over the years.<\/p>\n
Mr. Kofi Adams, National Campaign Coordinator of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC), accused the largest opposition party, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) of peddling falsehood to deceive voters.<\/p>\n
He said that was why it was running away from the challenge to engage in a presidential debate and urged the people to ignore, what he labeled as the \u201clies and deception\u201d.<\/p>\n
He rallied NDC supporters to reach out to every voter and assist them to understand why they should return the party to power.<\/p>\n
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Credit: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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