The New Patriotic Party (NPP) is set to launch its 2024 manifesto today (18 August 2024), in Takoradi in the Western Region.
The NPP has constituted an 11-member committee to oversee the planning and execution of the manifesto launch.
Party supporters are expected to gather at the Ghana Secondary Technical School (GSTS) in Takoradi today (Sunday, 18 August 2024) at 1pm.
Speaking to newsmen in Accra last Tuesday (13 August), Dennis Miracles Aboagye, spokesperson for the Bawumia Campaign Team, revealed some of the policies to be unveiled on Sunday, stating that the NPP presidential candidate, Mahmudu Bawumia, will focus heavily on jobs.
“In the 2024 manuscripts on Sunday, expect Mahamudu Bawumia and the NPP to be heavy on jobs and businesses. We are able to do that because, in the past eight years, we have worked so hard to create a certain level of convenience for the Ghanaian people.”
“In doing that, we’ve had difficulties on the business end of it because the economy has struggled with COVID and the Russia-declared war,” he added.
“That’s what we’ve been trying to do in the past two to three years. That is why you see the economy go so badly, went all the way to 54% with inflation, and now it’s coming down to about 20.9%. You see GDP improving,” Aboagye said.
He added, “Mahamudu Bawumia’s pre occupation in the manifesto for 2024 is to say that let’s expand the economy, create a resilient economy that can withstand a lot more than it did when COVID struck in 2020.”
He emphasised that the manifesto is going to focus on creating an enabling environment, introducing policies that will boost businesses so they can produce more, expand and then employ more young people.
Reducing taxes
Bawumia has been advocating for a comprehensive tax reduction system.
According to Miracles Aboagye, “We can afford to reduce some of these taxes.”
“And that’s why he [Bawummia] speaks of removing the A-level tax, removing the medicine tax. And these are things that the vice-president believes that once we do this, it will create a certain space for businesses to be able to thrive.”
He encouraged business owners in particular to look forward to the removal of those taxes, such as the e-levy and the betting tax, etc.
He added, “And once they are thriving, they can do more. And once they are doing more, they will need more hands to employ more people.
