One District One Factory Against One District Ten Tractors

I heard my president promising one district ten tractors. I took it upon myself to do a little research about this.

We have 216 districts in Ghana. 216*10= 2,160. This means we are going to have 2,160 tractors in Ghana. Good news...! Good news... ! Yeeiiiiii Choo boi Yei, Choo boi Yei.... (for a populist appeal of course!).

I came to costing.
I checked online and other sources to check the cost of a tractor. With the aid of some experts in Agric and the internet, I realised one tractor with 100 to 150 HP including Loader and backhole attachment cost $190,000.00. (Please, this cost is minus the normal ntwobo for NDC government officials on all deals).

In effect, $190,000*2160= $410,400,000.00 (Four Hundred and Ten Million, Four Hundred Thousand Dollars).

In current currency conversion which is $1=C4, it means in Ghana Cedis the cost of all the tractors will be 1,641,600,000.00 Cedis (One Billion Six Hundred and Fourty One Million Six Hundred Thousand Ghana Cedis).

Total cost in each district will be 760000*10= 7,600,000 Ghana Cedis (7.6 million Ghana Cedis).

After all these research and analysis, I further asked myself, what exactly are the people of Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly, Accra Metropolitan Assembly, Tema Municipal etc going to use ten tractors for? (Hmmm, you can help me answer this later with your comments).

Can someone convince me, 7.6 million Ghana cedis cannot build one factory that can employ a minimum of 100 people in Ghana? This is possible! Remember, they are saying One District One Factory is not possible.

They will spend 7.6 million Ghana Cedis in each district purchasing tractors!

My conclusion
When desperation sets in whatever you are doing, you just say things without due diligence and whoever the gods wants to kill, they first make him mad!

Desperation has set in the NDC campaign because of the good policies like One District One Factory, One Village One Dam in the North, One Constituency One Million Dollars every year for development etc the NPP is putting before the good people of Ghana.

Ghanaians, governance is about choices and priorities. The government of the day decides where to spend the countries resources and for what purpose.

NDC decides to pay crook judgement debt whiles NPP decides to pay Nurses and Teacher Trainee allowances.

NDC decides to buy tractors for districts (which of course, as I'm writing, I don't know what some districts are going to do with ten tractors), NPP decides to build factories which suit the needs of the people, give employment and for exports.

My fellow Ghanaians, the best option for Ghana in the upcoming elections is NPP. Please let's vote against NDC for they have no tangible policy to fix the unemployment we the youth are facing. Let's vote Nana, Let's vote NPP. Nana bɛba. #Im4change..... #Im4Nana

©Gabriel Asante
Department of History and Political Studies
KNUST-Kumasi