The Association of Floating Voters – Ghana, an umbrella organization comprising of Ghanaian electorates not affiliated to any political party, has thrown their weight behind the administration of President Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo for remarkable achievements chalked in office since assuming political power.
Members of the group have also declared their willingness to support his second term bid as Ghana heads to another crucial polls in December.
Addressing a news conference in Takoradi to announce their decision to back President Akufo-Addo, President of the group, Nicholas Addai recounted a number of achievements chalked by the NPP government under the leadership of President Akufo-Addo.
“When the NDC took over government from former President John Agyekum Kufuor, a new association was formed in Ghana with branches across the country known as Unemployed Graduate Association. When Nana Addo took over office, he introduced a number of policies to correct this abnormality”, he said.
Such policies include Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) and National Entrepreneurship and Innovation Program (NEIP), which has seen massive increase in the employment sector, tackling the menace of unemployment in the country.
He noted that under former President John Mahama, the country experienced electricity crisis for close to three and half years in this country and these affected businesses including tailoring shops, hairdresser salons, barbering shops, hospitals, banks, mobile phone repair shops, the media houses, thus, radio, TV and the print media organizations just to mention a few.
“Many businesses collapsed and some even moved out of the country. Can you imagine COVID-19 in Dumsor?”, he queried.
According to him, when President Nana Akufo-Addo took over the reigns of government, power crisis became a thing of the past and businesses did not have to buy generators and diesel any more.
He observed that Nana Addo upon assumption of office, created a whole ministry to cater for Zongo development and also set up the Zongo Development Fund.
He added that under this Fund, many projects are ongoing in the various Zongo communities across the country while Arabic teachers allowance has also been restored.
“Persons with disability are more empowered under Nana Addo. They have received more money and more working equipment which helps them generate money on a daily basis, the PWDs are better off under Nana Addo’s government than under former President Mahama’s Government”, he stated.
Mr Addai opined that the government of Nana Akufo-Addo has put in place a lot of measures in place to reduce the hardship on the citizens to mitigate the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Some of the interventions include hot meal for thousands of Ghanaians, free water for the entire country since the beginning till the end of this year, 50% electricity tariff cut off for businesses, free electricity for lifeline users from the time of COVID-19 till the end of the year and tax waiver for all health workers.
The rest are 50% additional salary for all COVID-19 front line workers, stimulus packages to support all businesses and entrepreneurs to reduce the hardship as a result of the COVID-19 crisis on their businesses.
Story: Seth Ameyaw Danquah
