{"id":233523,"date":"2016-07-24T05:58:45","date_gmt":"2016-07-24T05:58:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=233523"},"modified":"2016-07-24T05:58:45","modified_gmt":"2016-07-24T05:58:45","slug":"ndc-only-copy-and-mess-up-npps-good-ideas-agyarko","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/07\/ndc-only-copy-and-mess-up-npps-good-ideas-agyarko\/","title":{"rendered":"NDC only copy and mess up NPP’s good ideas – Agyarko"},"content":{"rendered":"

The\u00a0policy adviser of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer, Nana Akufo Addo, has accused the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) of modifying his party’s\u00a0ideas, only to fail in its implementation.<\/p>\n

Boakye Agyarko made this claim following the announcement by the government on Thursday, that an abated allowance would be paid to trainee nurses.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”F9i8IYrsYyj0G33ICxmdz0ftWaHZ8MFZ”]Senior members of the NPP have often stated that,\u00a0they would\u00a0restore allowances<\/strong><\/span><\/a> to teacher and nursing trainees when the party wins power.<\/p>\n

The running-mate of Nana Addo, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia in March said said: \u201cThere is one assurance I want to leave you\u2026we will restore teacher and nursing\u00a0training allowances. For us, this is non-negotiable. It is a priority as a government of Nana Addo-Dunkwa Akufo-Addo and in the very first budget in the year 2017, we will restore teacher and nursing training allowances.”<\/p>\n

His comments were criticized by pro-government groups who stated that it would not be sustainable.<\/p>\n

According to Boakye Agyarko,\u00a0the NDC usually criticizes the ideas of the NPP, only to eventually adopt them in a slightly altered form.<\/p>\n

He stated\u00a0this was a common practice by the governing party, as they had already failed in the implementation of the Free Senior High School (SHS) policy, and the Savannah Accelerated Development Authority (SADA)\u00a0project, which he claims were originally NPP ideas and which the NDC had criticized.<\/p>\n

“I am not surprised that the Mahama government has taken this step. Anytime the NPP introduces a very good idea, their first reaction is to be incredulous and treat that idea with disdain and subsequently adopt it, and mess up its implementation. You can cite the famous examples of Free Senior High School and SADA. They treated those ideas with utmost incredulity and ended up adopting it and messing it up. It\u2019s something that\u2019s pathological to them,”Boakye Agyarko said on Eyewitness News.<\/strong><\/p>\n

He also claimed that, the restoration of the allowances was only a move to pander \u00a0to the public<\/strong><\/a><\/span> in order to secure votes for the elections.<\/p>\n

According to him, the decision to restore the allowances was unsurprising with about four months to go to\u00a0the polls.<\/p>\n

He believes that by this move, the government is clearly\u00a0growing increasingly desperate to win over voters.<\/p>\n

“When you have Asiedu Nketiah rubbishing the payment of student allowance, a president who has signed an IMF agreement to tighten the belts on the national purse and keeps on reminding the nation that under no circumstance will he allow budget overruns then suddenly for political gains, the president does a U-turn through a very obscure statement, it\u2019s a pure political gimmick and I don\u2019t believe that anything will come out of it“<\/strong><\/p>\n

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Boakye Agyarko<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

‘Scraped’ allowances to be restored<\/strong><\/p>\n

A technical committee set up by the President to review allowances for nursing trainees, on Thursday, recommended payment of an abated allowance<\/strong><\/span><\/a> with a possibility to migrate them unto the Students Loan Scheme.<\/p>\n

The allowances had initially been scrapped in order to improve admission \u00a0into the various training institutions by removing the restrictions on admissions\u00a0due to the huge amount paid on\u00a0allowances.<\/p>\n

The trainee widely opposed the move leading to the setting up of a committee to assess the situation and advise on the way forward.<\/p>\n

The Committeee recommended that the\u00a034,500 students in the\u00a0health professional training across the country will receive a payment of GHc 150 a month.<\/p>\n

The statement said \u201cthe payment amount would serve as a bridging mechanism pending the amendment of the Students Loan Trust Act, to enable students in non-tertiary health training institutions access loans to support education.\u201d<\/p>\n

–<\/p>\n

By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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