Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, Running Mate of the New Patriotic Party has said that the party if voted into power would usher in a Golden Age of Rural development where rural and deprived communities will see development like they have never seen before since the country’s independence.
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NPP ready to usher in 'Golden Age' of rural development
Dr. Bawumia explained that the NPP will be able to achieve such development through its well-thought-out policies.
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Dr. Bawumia explained that the NPP will be able to achieve such development through its well-thought-out policies and vision including its policy to reallocate $275 million of the capital expenditure budget to the 275 constituencies directly for development.
“We have major plans for this country. We are going to introduce new policies that are going to grow this economy, create jobs and bring development to the North and to Ghana as a whole. We are going to introduce a Golden Age of Rural Development in Ghana. This is going to be an age where constituencies like Chereponi are going to see development like they have never seen before since independence”, he said at Chereponi in the Northern region on Monday.
“We are going to make sure that money for development does not stay in the centre but comes to Chereponi. From next year, for the first time in the history of Ghana, we are going to take a part of our Capital expenditure budget, we are going to reallocate a part of it to every constituency in Ghana, every constituency will get their share. From next year, every year without fail Insha Allah, Chereponi Constituency will get GHC4million or 40billion old cedis; every constituency in Ghana will get GHC 4million, which is the equivalent of $1million for your own development.
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“You are no longer going to wait for Accra before you get money to solve your basic problems or for a government to come and say they are using the money to rear Guinea Fowls that have run away to Burkina Faso. And it is not like we are going to come in and look for the money. The money is already sitting there. We are going to take it and bring it to Chereponi Constituency and other constituencies”, he added.
He argued that Ghana’s development budget for the last 59 years “have been skewed and that is why there is so much underdevelopment. This is why we have to bring about a new age, a golden age of rural development picking up from where Prime Minister Busia’s government left off, where we had a focus on Rural Development.”
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