Nana Addo Should Sack His Health Advisors – Mahama

President John Dramani Mahama on Sunday said the New Patriotic Party's
proposal to provide free healthcare to children under 18 years was in
contrast to the National Health Insurance Authority law.

He said such children were already benefiting from the National Health
Insurance Scheme from their parents and wondered how the proposal
could be useful to them.

President Mahama made this known when he addressed a rally at
Wassa-Akropong on the third day of his five-day campaign tour of the
Western Region.

The president earlier on addressed rallies at Bogoso, Bawdie, and
Nsuaem and is expected to address similar ones at Prestea, Manso and
Tarkwa.

President Mahama said the National Democratic Congress (NDC) would not
make promises that would be unredeemable and appealed to the
electorate to assess the candidates on merit of workable issues and
not on vain promises.

He said the performance of the NDC in the past four years had
overwhelmed their political opponents compelling them to make
unachievable promises.

The President said all the communities of the region would receive
their share of the national cake and urged them to vote massively for
the NDC in the December polls for him to continue and complete all the
projects initiated by late President John Evans Atta Mills.

President Mahama said communities without second cycle institutions
would benefit from the new 200 Senior high Schools to be established
in the next four years of the NDC government.

As a way of increasing the number of teachers in the country,
President Mahama said government would establish 10 training colleges
throughout the country to absorb more students.

President Mahama also announced that two electrical contractors would
soon begin work to connect 60 communities in the region.

Kasapreko Kwame Bassanyin IV, Omanhene of Wassa-Akropong appealed to
government to upgrade the Police station in the area into a district
police headquarters to enable the personnel to fight the rising crime
in the mining areas.

He asked the government to work on Wassa- Akropong roads to facilitate
the haulage of minerals and food crops to the marketing centres.

GNA