Nana Addo Angry Over NHIS Capitation In Ashanti

FLAGBEARER OF the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has expressed disgust over the government’s decision to use a densely populated area like the Ashanti Region to pilot the Capitation system of the NHIS.

Ideally, he pointed out, pilot programmes were usually done at areas where the population was small and following the success of the programme, it was translated to the densely populated areas.

Nana Akufo-Addo therefore expressed shock at the NDC government’s decision to rather choose a place whose population was huge to try the Capitation System.

Sensing foul play, the NPP leader bemoaned that the government’s awkward decision had almost collapsed the NHIS in the Ashanti Region, heightening the health problems of the people in the process.

Nana Akufo-Addo, with concern all over his face, said information he has been receiving from the Ashanti Region about the NHIS was not pleasant, insisting that the country needed a change of direction to save it from total collapse.

The NPP presidential candidate was addressing a large crowd of party faithful at the Asawase Constituency during his tour of the Ashanti Region to explain his vision for Ghana to the electorate.

Nana Akufo-Addo said matters about human health were crucial therefore it was not proper for any government to do politics with them, stating that he was still in wonderland about the NDC government’s decision to pilot the capitation programme in the Ashanti Region.

He promised that as president he would not take any decision, due to political motivation that would end up punishing any segment of the populace, stressing that he would be a fair president.

Ghanaians, Nana Akufo-Addo stated, were one people with a common destiny, therefore nobody should try to sideline or implement a policy or programme that tended to make life unbearable for a particular group.

The NPP flagbearer said his tour of the country had shown him the country had a lot to do in terms of developmental projects, bemoaning that most of the roads in the hinterlands were in poor state.

Nana Akufo-Addo lamented also that the country’s infrastructural base was not in the best shape, insisting that Ghana was miles away from becoming the developed country that the people craved for.

Ghana’s problems, the former Foreign Affairs Minister stated, were many; therefore, the country needed a person like him who had vision and commitment to introduce better policies, to save and lead her.

Nana Akufo-Addo said the free Senior High School (SHS) which had been well accepted by the larger populace of Ghanaians so far, was not his only vision for the country when he became president.

He explained that aside the free SHS, his government would restore hope and life to all sectors of the state including the health, roads, education, security among others, assuring that Ghana would be a better place to live when he became the leader of the state.