Kojo Oppong Nkrumah: NPP delivered 70% of campaign promises

Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, MP for Ofoase-Ayirebi constituency has claimed that the NPP under Akufo-Addo delivered 70% of the promises made in the 2020 manifesto. The Works and Housing Minister said though the party could not fulfil all its promises, it went well beyond half.

“We are of the view that we have done 70% of the things we committed to in 2020. Other independent people can work it out and we can have a debate about it. We haven’t said we have done 100%. our data tells us that we have done 70%,” he told Bernard Avle on The Point of View.

“If you look at our economy, the big basket of our economy, various variables are going into it. Growth, inflation, jobs, cost of living. If you take all of these parameters from 2016 to 2020, the story is clear where the trends were going. From 2020 up till now, you can see from all of these indicators the key ones that had some major challenges,” Kojo Oppong Nkrumah.

“Inflation and currency depreciation have been perhaps the most significant. You have seen growth picking back after the turbulence that we went through. You have seen currency depreciation, though it’s significant, going down after many policies were introduced to arrest the situation. We have seen inflation trending downwards because some interventions were made,” the NPP Manifesto Committee Vice Chairman added.

Kojo Oppong Nkrumah said the NPP is responsible and is taking responsibility for the hardships in the country by outlining interventions to mitigate them. He said the admission of guilt means responsibility, which he insinuates speaks volumes of the party’s credibility.

“Going into the 2024 elections, not only are we taking responsibility for some of the things that have not been dealt with. Because if we hadn’t taken responsibility for the cost of living and how it has impacted Ghanaians, despite the causes, why would we be outlining some of the interventions we say we can roll out?”