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Fact check: Bawumia’s claim that Circle Interchange cost $260m mostly true

Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia claims the National Democratic Congress government constructed the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange at a cost of $260 million while 4 interchanges constructed by the NPP government cost 280 million dollars. Is that a fact? Claim: Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia says the NDC government constructed the Kwame Nkrumah Interchange at a cost of 260 million dollars ...

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How Mahama govt used state funds to sponsor anti-Free SHS campaign – Kweku Baako

Under the Mahama regime, there was a state-sponsored campaign to discredit Akufo-Addo’s Free SHS programme, Kweku Baako is alleging. Baako asserts that the government of Mahama did not only oppose the program but they followed through with adverts on media platforms to make it unpopular. The veteran journalist says his newspaper New Crusading Guide were among the media houses that ...

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FULL TEXT: Bawumia’s presentation on govt’s infractural dev’t at town hall meeting

The Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, on Tuesday, August 18, 2020, made a presentation to tout the government’s infrastructural achievements in its first term in office. The event was held at the Ghana Academy of Arts and Science in Accra and outlined major achievements under the current administration led by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo. “Before the 2016 election, the ...

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Some infrastructure projects NPP and NDC are fighting over

To bridge the inequality gap and alleviate the plight of the ordinary Ghanaian, political parties are given a mandate by the electorates to implement and manifest their goodwill and promises. By and large, this goodwill of political parties contained in their manifestos in developing countries like Ghana, are mostly weighed per the number of developmental projects which are actually achieved ...

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Bawumia’s results fair must be scrutinized, cost of interchanges don’t add up – Kweku Baako

Editor-In-Chief of the New Crusading Guide Newspaper, Abdul Malik Kweku Baako has urged Ghanaians to subject Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia‘s public engagement on the infrastructure record of the Akufo-Addo administration to scrutiny. According to him, the Vice President’s assertions should not be accepted at face value but rather there should be a deep dive into the figures and account ...

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15m Ghanaians have bank accounts thanks to MoMo interoperability – Bawumia

Following the successful implementation of Mobile Money Payment Interoperability by the Akufo-Addo government, about fifteen (15) million Ghanaians essentially have bank accounts, Vice PresidentDr. Mahamudu Bawumia has said. Addressing youth wing of the governing New Patriotic Party in Accra on Wednesday August 12, 2020, Vice President Bawumia explained that with the triangular feature which mobile money payments interoperability allows; that ...

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Many people still don’t understand my ‘every Ghanaian’ll get bank account’ comment – Bawumia

Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia has said that a lot of Ghanaians still do not understand what he meant by every Ghanaian will have a bank account. He said most people thought he was talking about traditional bank accounts but that was not the case. On Tuesday, August 11, the Member of Parliament for Ningo Prampram Constituency, Samuel Nartey George, ...

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Ghanaians to use Ghana Card numbers as TIN for business transactions next year

The Government, through the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), has begun processes to convert the National Identification numbers into Tax Identification numbers (TIN) to ensure easy payment of taxes. The move will allow Ghanaians to use their Ghana Card numbers to register their businesses and expected to shore up government revenue. This is expected to commence from January 2021, which would ...

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Akufo-Addo throws out petition to dismiss Jean Mensa

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has dismissed a petition to remove Jean Mensa as Chairperson of the Electoral Commission(EC). Civil society organisation, Alliance for Social Equity and Public Accountability (ASEPA), petitioned the President to remove Jean Mensa after securing a declaration from the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) that the EC boss failed to declare her assets ...

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EC registers 16.9m citizens: 3m first-time voters, 7m female, 1m male

A total of 16.9million citizens were registered by the Electoral Commission (EC) during the 38-day voter registration exercise to put together a new voter’s register. The total number, which exceeded the Commission’s 15 million eligible voters’ target by 1.9 million, was also slightly higher than the 16.8 million in the old register. A little breakdown shows that the new register ...

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