Henry Nana Boakye, aka Nana B
The New Patriotic Party (NPP) youth wing has stated categorically that the erstwhile Mahama-led National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration built 808 Community Health Planning and Services (CHPS) compounds and not 3,000 as they are propagating.
A statement signed by NPP National Youth Organizer Henry Nana Boakye, aka Nana B, said they had conducted extensive research and found that the NDC used the non-existent 3,000 CHPS compounds agenda to hoodwink Ghanaians and must not happen again.
He said the NDC had started the propaganda once again, trying to push their ‘phantom’ hospital projects agenda, but said the NPP would continue to let Ghanaians know what is on the ground in the health sector.
“It would be recalled that in the lead up to the 2016 general election, the NDC captured phantom hospital projects in their Green Book and Manifesto ostensibly to create a false impression in the minds of Ghanaians that Mr. Mahama has undertaken unprecedented infrastructural projects within four years but, fortunately, they were exposed badly,” Nana B pointed out.
“This ineffective and scruffy strategy is being re-launched by the NDC in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. Over the week, the NDC, through Sammy Gyamfi, in a very arrogant bravado, told a palpable falsehood to the effect that the Mahama administration (between 2013 and 2016) built over 3,000 CHPS compounds,” he added.
Nana B said that “ironically, the data available does not support these wild delusional claims. The number of CHPS compounds constructed by the erstwhile Mahama-led NDC administration is captured in all the budget statements (2012-2017) presented to Parliament by the then Finance Minister, Hon. Seth Terkper, and the current Finance Minister, Hon. Ken Ofori Atta.”
He said, “Aside from the budget statements, there is no other document presented to Parliament or any other appropriate quarters for allocations to be made for the construction of CHPS compounds in the years under review,” adding “in simple terms, the budget statements remain the only documents that captured the construction of CHPS compounds by the Mahama administration and the same have been employed below to expose the NDC.”
He said unlike the NDC, the NPP administration led by President Akufo-Addo has been candid with the public and “has put up a sterling performance with glaring evidence in all sectors of the economy, including health.”
“Within three years, the NPP government has undertaken over 700 infrastructural projects, encompassing district hospitals, polyclinics, community clinics, community health centres, CHPS compounds, staff bungalows, among others. Aside from these, seven regional hospitals, three infectious disease control centres, 88 district hospitals, nine polyclinics and dozens of CHP compounds and community clinics have been earmarked for construction this year,” he disclosed.