The flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), former President John Dramani Mahama, has stated that he is being measured in his promises ahead of the 2024 general elections.
That, he said was because the current state of the country’s economy limits him from making grand promises as the public purse had been depleted by the current government.
“…I am being very measured in the promises that I make because we all know the crisis in which this country has been plunged (into). We will show you the books and finances of this country, and you will realise the harm that the New Patriotic Party administration has done this country, the economy is broke.”
Former President Mahama said this when he addressed NDC supporters in Hohoe in the Volta Region to climax his two-day “Building the Ghana we want together” tour of the region.
To help improve local governance, former President Mahama said the next NDC government would pay monthly allowances of GH¢1,000 to all assembly members, an expenditure which would cost the nation GH¢80 million a year.
“The office of the President’s budget alone is more than GH¢2 billion. We are going to reduce the President’s office expenditure to pay the assembly members,” he said.
