National Democratic Congress (NDC) parliamentary candidate for the Tema Central Constituency of the Greater Accra Region, Ebi Bright, has scored Akufo-Addo’s government 2 out of 10 on its performance in office.
According to the actress turned politician, her 2/10 score on the performance of the Nana Addo-led administration is influenced by the implementation of the Free Senior High School(SHS) policy, indicating that she would have scored the government below the 2/10 mark but for the implementation of the flagship free SHS policy.
The NDC parliamentary candidate, who is seeking to snatch the Tema Central parliamentary seat from the governing New Patriotic Party(NPP), believes her party could have implemented the policy better than the Akufo-Addo administration.
Though she affirmed that the Free SHS Policy is a good policy, the actress argued that it would have been smoothly implemented without some of the challenges that have bedeviled it if the government had been more accommodating of views and opinions on the policy expressed by Civil Society Organizations (CSOs) and opposition parties.
“As a Ghanaian, as a resident of Tema Central and not even speaking as a member of the NDC which I’m confident can do way better, maybe 2/10 just because of the Free SHS programme and even that I think that there have been a few too many voices that could have improved the situation that have been ignored. And I think that they could do a lot better,” she stated in an interview on GhOne TV.
The NDC parliamentary candidate’s score of the performance of the government which translates to 20 percent is higher than her party’s assessment of the performance of the government which scored the Nana Addo-led administration 14 percent on the achievement of promises made by the ruling party prior to the 2016 Elections.
Policy think tank, IMANI Africa in its assessment of the government’s fulfilment of its 2016 manifesto promises revealed that the NPP government had fulfilled 48.78 percent of the promises it made in the run-up to the 2016 elections as at 2019.
But president Akufo-Addo in a sharp rebuttal said he disagreed with the assessment of IMANI Africa stating that his government had been able to fulfill about 72 percent of the promises it made to Ghanaians.
“I disagree with the 48 assessment by IMANI. I think we deserve much higher. We are looking at 72. We have a fundamental disagreement with that rating.
Our figure is the one we are working with and it’s the right one,” the President said at his 3rd encounter with the media in Accra.
