TAX, EDUCATION
The manifesto additionally highlights a tax amnesty programme designed to encourage companies to adjust to tax laws with out dealing with penalties.
This, “will convey extra companies into the formal financial system, improve authorities income, and finally, create extra jobs”, stated Bawumia.
Bawumia additionally promised to develop entry to schooling and enhance infrastructure.
“We’ll be certain that each little one, irrespective of the place they arrive from, has entry to high quality schooling. This isn’t only a promise – it’s a dedication we’ll fulfil.”
Some observers, nevertheless, stay sceptical.
For Joshua Jebuntie Zaato, a political science lecturer on the College of Ghana, social gathering manifestos are “purchasing lists” that always go unfulfilled.
“Political events have a tendency to vow the moon throughout campaigns, however the actuality of governance typically limits what can really be delivered,” he advised AFP.
The NPP is searching for an unprecedented third consecutive time period in workplace, however faces a formidable problem from the opposition Nationwide Democratic Congress (NDC), led by former president John Mahama.
Mahama is set to reclaim energy. Each Bawumia and Mahama hail from northern Ghana, including a regional dimension to the competition.
Ghana, certainly one of West Africa’s steady democracies, faces vital financial challenges, together with a US$3 billion mortgage settlement with the Worldwide Financial Fund after an financial downturn in 2022 resulted in record-high 54-percent inflation.
