Akufo-Addo ill-prepared to fulfil promises – Imani

President Nana Akufo-Addo and his government are not well prepared to deliver on their major manifesto promises, Mr Franklin Cudjoe, president of policy think tank Imani, has said.

At a public lecture on the topic: Managing the Expectations of the Electorate and the Delivering of Electoral Promises, Mr Cudjoe said: “I must emphasise that a hundred days in government is a little early to judge the performance of any government. However, if there is ever the clearest indication of unpreparedness in executing the many promises the NPP made into their vagueness, it was clearly in the appointment of a hundred and ten ministers, the highest ever in the country’s history.

“You should know by now that the office of government machinery will accommodate all these hundred and ten ministers and that office alone had been allocated almost 1.56 billion Ghana cedis and that is sixty per cent of all allocations going to the Ministries of Water Resources, Works and Housing, Roads and Highways, Communications, Railway Development, Aviation, and Transport.”

Among some of the major manifesto promises of the NPP are building 216 factories across the country, building a dam in every farming village in the three regions up north, giving $275 million to each of the 275 constituencies in the country annually and also reviving the private sector.