Sometimes, I struggle to understand the motivation behind certain catch phrases. I know that in order to secure a deal or an agreement, we are always eager to go out there with a phrase that will sweep investors off their feet and have them running to us. But these phrases mostly resonate the good projects already done and attest to the nature and integrity of the company at the pitching desk.
In like manner, the realm of politics also make use of such catch phrases and it is meant to not only describe the vision of aspirants but also expected to embody the current turnout of events.
I have spent the last two months, trying to scan through dictionaries and surfing the internet for what Mahama and the NDC mean by the word ‘rescue’. My search has yielded virtually nothing since everything points to the direction of protecting our progress as Ghanaians, from the prowling hands of John Mahama and his NDC who only mean to ‘rescue’ it into catastrophic failure.
I have always maintained that this year’s election and who we vote for as a people will champion our aspiration as a nation. We have in the last three and half years made considerable gains as a nation. Gains that the man on the so-called rescue mission could not make during his tenure as President of this great nation. The NPP government led by H.E Nana Akufo-Addo has in its first term of office, instituted arguably the most encompassing social intervention programme in Ghanaian history- Free SHS. Now I ask, what needs to be rescued here? Is it the policy that John Mahama and his NDC maligned and labelled an impossibility which has now seen over 1.2 million students being given the opportunity to challenge themselves to higher heights? Ghanaians do not want to be rescued from this policy that has brought relief to parents and also significantly contributed to the rise in the enrolment of the girlchild.
Our younger siblings, our children, our grandchildren, our nieces and nephews are asking us to remember them and their future as we go to the polls on December 7. This election goes beyond politics as usual. It is about the security of education for our children and opportunities for them in a prosperous Ghana. Their education depends on our vote and we cannot let them down.
With other social intervention programmes like NABCO; NHIS; Planting for Food and Jobs; Restoration of Nursing and Teacher Trainee Allowances all going steadily, my question still remains- What is there for Mahama to rescue? This was the man whose government saw no need for the existence of trainee allowances and with the stroke of their pens cancelled it without a blink. Interestingly, his Running Mate, Professor Naana Jane Opoku-Agyeman, was the Minister responsible for Education when teacher trainee allowances were cancelled! If John Mahama could not rescue all those impactful policies then, what makes us sure he can rescue them now. John Mahama has always stayed true to one thing and that is himself and his undiluted quest for power, at the expense of the ordinary Ghanaian.
