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Election 2020: Mahama announces US$10 billion infrastructural plan

John Mahama says the plan, named the “Big Push”, will accelerate infrastructural development and deliver jobs to young Ghanaians

Ghana News Agency (Accra) – The former president John Dramani Mahama, flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress, has announced a US$10 billion accelerated infrastructural plan to drive jobs and entrepreneurial agenda when elected in December elections.

Named the “Big Push”, the fund will be injected into infrastructural development. According to the NDC Election 2020 flagbearer, “It will involve the construction industry, engineering and other professionals, and will bring a lot of artisans and everybody back into work.”

The former president added: “We are looking at what I call the Big Push, injecting some $10 billion to revamp the roads sector, complete the remainder of the 200 community day senior high schools, finish all the hospital projects that have been left abandoned, and construct bridges to open up the country.”

A statement issued by the NDC campaign team, signed by James Agyenim-Boateng, said the major plank of the second coming of John Dramani Mahama as president “is to deliver jobs to our young people”.

Ticking time bomb

The NDC flagbearer, who had been meeting traditional rulers and various interest groups in the Savannah, Northern, Oti and Volta Regions, also announced that delivering jobs to young Ghanaians would be a major plank of his next government.

“If we do not do this urgently, we have a ticking time bomb on our hands. Everything and every policy will be focused on creating jobs for young people,” Mahama said.

The NDC flagbearer said his “Agenda One Million Jobs” would lead to the creation of between 300,000 and 400,000 jobs a year, across the private and public sectors.

“It is a very well-thought-out plan and will be the central promise of our manifesto,” he said.

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