ASSESSING PRESIDENT JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA’s ONE MONTH OUT OF THE 120 DAYS

ASSESSING PRESIDENT JOHN DRAMANI MAHAMA’s 31 DAYS OUT OF THE 120 DAYS

During his campaign he proposed means to solve national cankers, calling it, “resetting Ghana” which included major initiatives like:

Scrapping Unneeded Taxes: Eliminating the COVID-19 levy, e-levy, betting tax, and taxes on industrial and agricultural equipment to reduce the cost of living and doing business.

Economic Stability: Launching a homegrown fiscal policy to stabilize the economy and reduce financial burdens.

Corruption Tackling: Initiating forensic audits into high-profile scandals such as the National Cathedral, COVID-19 expenditures, and missing excavators.
Boosting Education: Providing free tuition for first-year students in public tertiary institutions and distributing free sanitary pads to girls in primary and secondary schools.

Social Safety Nets: Compensating flood victims and supporting persons with disabilities through expanded food distribution programs.
Export Promotion: Establishing an Accelerated Export Development Council to create jobs and transform the economy.

Environmental Recovery: Restoring lands and water bodies affected by illegal mining (galamsey).

Employment and business expansion: with the 24-hr economy plan, entrepreneurship and industrialization.

Working on the abandoned and uncompleted projects: kotokuraba market phase 2, Saglemi housing, E blocks, medical facilities, interchange, Komenda sugar factory, Fishing University, etc.

1 MONTH OUT ACHEIVEMENT SO FAR:

1. Commenced discussions with key stakeholders to restore peace to Bawku

2. Constituted committee to set up the Gold Board

3. Formed an 8-member Education Forum Planning Committee to submit report and plan

4. Formed the economic dialogue planning committee to plan and engage necessary stakeholders to revive economy

5. Set up Tripartite committee to negotiate and determine minimum wage and base pay of public sector workers

6. Issued directive through EPA for immediate halt of illegal mining activities in forests and water bodies

7. Reduced UG residential facility fees from GHS3,000 to GHS2,500

8. Averted imminent and orchestrated power crises

9. Reduced ministries from 30 to 23

10. Presented formal request to the IGP for investigations and report on deaths during the 2020 and 2024 Elections

11. Halted sale of state lands and request to Lands Commission for submission of detailed report on state land purchases

12. Reversed seeming culture of silence with directive to CHASS to highlight challenges associated with implementation of the free SHS program

13. Nominated ministers in record first 14 days

14. Reduced Hajj fares from GHS75,000 to GHS62,000 per person

15. Instituted National Day of Prayer and Thanksgiving Service

16. Allocated foods stored at warehouses in Tema to various Senior High Schools to address feeding challenges

17. Halted use of public funds for the National Cathedral project

18. Tightened surveillance at markets and directives to the Ghana National Fire Service (GNFS) to locate fire tenders closer to all markets

19. Donated GHS1million to victims of the recent Kantamanto fire

20. United chiefs of the Western Region Chiefs after 5 years of a divided House of Chiefs

21. Constituted the Constitution Review Committee to review 1992 Constitution

22. Formed the ORAL preparatory committee to gather evidence for further action.