NDC’s Mahama has said the government’s attempt to build hospitals across the country under its Agenda 111 initiative is a mere afterthought.
According to him, the initiative is a face-saving move seeking to cure the Nana Addo government’s failure to show evidence of infrastructure for the colossal amount of money it has borrowed since it assumed office in 2017.
Speaking to the media in Bolgatanga as part of his ‘Thank You Tour’, the former President said there is no transparency in how the construction of the hospitals will be funded.
He questioned that they were criticised by their successors as over-borrowing but a lot of what they borrowed was tangible for people to be able to see. Several years later you are a witness to what has happened. From 120 billion cedis of total public debt to almost 400 billion cedis. What most Ghanaians ask is what have we done with this money.
AHe added that “Looks like most of it has gone into consumption rather than into providing the kind of infrastructure that we need. Is only as an afterthought that I suddenly realized that we must be doing some infrastructure. So, Agenda 111 has been conjured.
