The Director of Communications for Bawumia’s Campaign, Dennis Miracles Aboagye, has vehemently criticized former President John Dramani Mahama for his recent remarks regarding the educational sector.
Mr Aboagye underscored the achievements of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) in recent years, asserting that their progress surpasses that of previous administrations.
Speaking to the press on Tuesday, April 9, Aboagye took exception to Mahama’s statements, highlighting the NPP government’s successes, including the distribution of tablets to senior high school students.
“The flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party announced that we, the New Patriotic Party, were going to distribute tablets to students of senior high schools in this country. The NDC in their usual impossibility character and posture came out to radicalise this announcement, hoping it will never come to reality.”
“The incompetent former president, after promising to roll out and distribute tablets across this country and failing to implement this promise, comes to question the priority of the government to do the exact thing that he promised some 7 years ago and could not deliver.”
He noted that while the National Democratic Congress (NDC) initially dismissed the announcement as unattainable, the distribution has now commenced. Aboagye expressed disappointment in Mahama’s negativity toward the policy and its beneficiaries.
The National Youth Organizer of NPP, Salam Mustapha, also criticized Mahama’s suggestion to separate the Ministry of Youth from Sports.
Mustapha argued that such a move would not address youth unemployment and demonstrated a lack of comprehension of the issue’s complexities.
“But on the heels of our hard-working Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, the policy was launched, and distribution, as we speak, has started. Isn’t it unfortunate that the former president and the NDC, within the full-blown hypocritical parades, came to display their bitterness towards a policy and especially its beneficiaries who are all Ghanaians of this country?”
“His proposed solution to youth unemployment by decoupling the Ministry of Youth and Sports is not only misguided, but it also highlights his lack of understanding of the complexities of the issue. For the avoidance of doubt, sports is one of the means to develop young people, just like creative art.”
He questioned Mahama’s motives, considering his previous pledge to reduce the number of ministries.
“How then can you take away the very critical vehicle to the Ministry and claim to be solving the problem? Is it the same John Mahama who is promising to reduce the number of ministries now promising to create more?”