NDC continues to steal our ideas, says Miracles Aboagye

Dennis Miracles Aboagye, spokesperson for the Bawumia Campaign Team, has said the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and its flagbearer, John Mahama, continue to steal policies and ideas from the New Patriotic Party (NPP).

According to Miracles Aboagye, the National Democratic Congress continues to steal ideas from the New Patriotic Congress, but they never fully understand the idea because it is not their own.

Speaking on the Asaase Breakfast Show on Tuesday (13 August), Miracles Aboagye said, “It is public knowledge that the NDC consistently steals from the NPP in terms of ideas.

“You cannot give me even one evidence of the NPP stealing any idea from the NDC,” he added.

“And let me give you one indication. So we’ve had an opposition leader who has been an opposition leader for close to eight years. A de facto flag bearer has been a perennial leader of the NDC, now, he sits down, we elected our flagbearer in November, barely seven, eight months ago, and he’s going to launch his manifesto on Sunday (18 August).

“And the flagbearer of the NDC, that has been a perennial leader of the NDC and an opposition leader for eight years, still has not given an indication of when he’s going to launch his manifesto.”

He claimed that the NDC is waiting for them to launch their manifesto so that they can steal their policies.

“And let me tell you what’s going to happen, they wait, we go in on Sunday, launch a manifesto. They look at the framework we have developed, look at the policies, and basically begin to steal.”

He added, “So however you say, I’ll create one million jobs, they will come and say, We’ll create two million jobs. Whatever you say, I’ll give this to the hairdressers. They’ll come and say, I’ll give it to dressmakers and hairdressers. And that is the fact.”

According to him, the NPP has been a victim of the NDC’s thievery.

“Yes, there’s some thievery. But there’s a culprit and there’s a victim. And we are the victims, and the NDC is the culprit.”

“So we came back in 2017 and we set the country on a particular path, i.e. make life convenient for the citizens, provide the basic necessities for every Ghanaian everywhere to thrive, to at least aspire to be great.”

NPP Manifesto

The New Patriotic Party (NPP) is set to launch its 2024 manifesto on Sunday (18 August 2024), in Takoradi in the Western Region.

Miracles Aboagye revealed some of the policies to be unveiled on Sunday, stating that the NPP presidential candidate, Mahmudu Bawumia, will focus heavily on jobs.

“In the 2024 manuscripts on Sunday, expect Mahamudu Bawumia and the NPP to be heavy on jobs and businesses. We are able to do that because, in the past eight years, we have worked so hard to create a certain level of convenience for the Ghanaian people.”

“In doing that, we’ve had difficulties on the business end of it because the economy has struggled with COVID and the Russia-declared war.

“That’s what we’ve been trying to do in the past two to three years. That is why you see the economy go so badly, went all the way to 54% with inflation, and now it’s coming down to about 23%. You see GDP improving,” Aboagye said.

He added, “Mahamudu Bawumia’s pre occupation in the Manifesto for 2024 is to say that let’s expand the economy, create a resilient economy that can withstand a lot more than it did when COVID struck in 2020.”

“Create the fiscal space and the right environment for the business community so they can increase production and, by so doing, employ more. As we create the skills set for the young people, as we educate them, as we improve TVET, and we are creating a lot more skilled young people, there’s a need to create the jobs for them.”

He emphasised that the manifesto is going to focus on creating an enabling environment, introducing policies that will boost businesses so they can produce more, expand and then employ more young people.

“So that will be very welcome news to people, and again, not so different from what we gather the drift of the NDC’s manifesto will be.

” People will be interested to see, given the recent complaints by businesses about whether this will involve things such as the removal of certain taxes or levies that have been imposed over the past eight years.

He added that Ghanaians should expect Bawumia to speak about SME financing, which has already started in this manifesto.

“About two, three weeks ago, the President launched the SME fund, which is geared towards providing the needed financing to our small and medium enterprises, so they can have the right capacity to produce more.

Reducing taxes

Bawumia has been advocating for a comprehensive tax reduction system.

According to Miracles Aboagye, “We can afford to reduce some of these taxes.”

“And that’s why he [Bawummia] speaks of removing the A-level tax, removing the medicine tax. And these are things that the vice-president believes that once we do this, it will create a certain space for businesses to be able to thrive.”

He encouraged business owners in particular to look forward to the removal of those taxes, such as the e-levy and the betting tax, etc.

He added, “And once they are thriving, they can do more. And once they are doing more, they will need more hands to employ more people. – AsaaseRadio