President John Mahama has indicated that Ghana\u2019s economic transformation will take off next year if he is a given a second term.<\/p>\n
The President\u2019s comment comes on the heels of a recent lecture by the running mate to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia which questioned the President\u2019s management of Ghana\u2019s economy, especially when he had spoken of an economic take off in previous years.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”jJ1QDBJHkPcboMM4ongiIHyp4iyuHphm”]But According to the President, Ghana\u2019s potential to be a net exporter of food, power, education and healthcare in the West African sub-region will flourish completing what he calls a solid foundation he has laid in his first term.<\/p>\n
President Mahama while speaking at the Eid-ul-Adha commemoration on Monday said \u201cacross all sectors we are laying a solid foundation for the imminent take off of what I call an economic transformation, God willing in my second term in office.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI envision Ghana becoming a net exporter of food, power, education and healthcare to the rest of the ECOWAS sub-region. Through the implementation of this economic transformation and other policy initiative, we will create for Ghanaians massive employment and economic development opportunities. But let us work together, let us be each other\u2019s keeper and let us love our neighbors as ourselves,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
How many more foundations will Mahama build?<\/strong><\/p>\n Dr. \u00a0Bawumia, had mocked President Mahama<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u2019s continuous campaign mantra of having built a solid foundation, wondering how many more foundations the President wants to build, especially when he has also claimed that the economy has already taken off. In the view of the economist, President Maham has\u00a0 only destroyed the robust Ghanaian economic foundation built by former President John Agyekum Kufuor, from 2001 to 2008.<\/p>\n \u201cThe truth is that the foundation was already laid by the Kufuor government. President Mahama has spent the last eight years destroying the foundation and replacing it with a weak foundation of straw which he desperately tries to portray as a concrete,\u201d Dr. Bawumia said while delivering a lecture in Accra last week.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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