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16.04.2012 Feature Article

Reasons Why Mills Deserves Four More Years

Reasons Why Mills Deserves Four More Years
16.04.2012 LISTEN

Regardless of whether you like him or not he's doing exactly what the people elected him to do, and he's being as successful as anybody can be expected to be, given what he has to work with.

So, yes, he is a good president. He was given a mandate from the people in a democratic election and he's following up on his campaign promises. President Mills promised to run a transparent and accountable government. Many challenges still confront us as people but he is definitely laying the solid foundation necessary to attain the objective of a transformed industrialized nation.

Under the Mills led administration, the economy which hitherto had high inflation, a high budget deficit, a depreciating cedi and depleting gross international reserves has been totally turned around for the better.

The Macroeconomic indices attest to this feat with several indicators showing fantastic results never achieved in Ghana's history.

According to the revised GDP estimate released by the Ghana Statistical Service, the economy also grew by 14.4 percent for the period, which is 0.8 percentage points more than the previous estimate, making Ghana the fastest growing economy in the world.

Prudent fiscal measures by Mills administration have resulted in a sustainable single digit inflation rate for over 15 months. Inflation rate currently stands at 8.4% being the lowest in 42 years since 1970.

The IMF/ World Bank Doing Business report adjudged Ghana as a global best performer in access to credit and also the best place to do business in West Africa. It is not surprising therefore that for the first quarter of 2011 alone, 109 new businesses with an estimated value amounting to GHC 567.66 million were established in Ghana.

Ghana investment promotion council (GIPC) figures released shows an increase in projects registered at the GIPC amounting to over $7billion in foreign direct investment.

Other social intervention programmes under the Mills presidency are free uniforms, free exercise books, 50% increase in capitation grant, elimination of schools under trees and a Mathematics, Science and Technology Scholarship Scheme (MASTESS).

President Mills is supporting Ghanaian workers by throwing a life line to them.

The country's wage bill has more than doubled under the last three (3) years from approximately two billion Ghana Cedis to over five billion Ghana Cedis.

President Mills has therefore put more money in the pockets of Ghanaian workers who are better off today than they were.

Government has made huge payment as salaries to workers by way of migrating about 97% of government workers onto the single spine salary structure.

Life expectancy has shot up from 53 years to 64.2 years, an increase of 11 years (Latest United Nations Human Development Index)

Never in the history of Ghana has a president and his party worked so actively in the interest of people.

There is transparency in government business, and in three short years, President Mills has made giant strides in the area of investing heavily in the economic infrastructure of the country.

I find the President to be very forthright and honest. Something I never saw in John Kufuor.

Love him or hate him he is a world of difference and that's a good thing.

Yes he is because he is working hard to restore Ghana's reputation in the world after Kufuor dragged us through the gutter.

In general, Mills has been a good leader. He has been able to bring governance to the door steps of the ordinary Ghanain. He was left with Kufuor's huge mess and you can't expect him to be like a magician and change everything at will.

A President, who has been reviled, lied about, called names and faced more obstruction and hate than anyone. He alone is trying to restore hope in Ghanaians.

Against him and Ghana is the entire New Patriotic Party (NPP) who seek the failure of Ghana to gain their own political power.

There is no better man to lead Ghana, anywhere, ever.

I shall be back
Dela Coffie
www.delacoffie.wordpress.com

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