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President Nana Akufo-Addo<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa\nAkufo-Addo, has said that by the end of his four-year mandate, Ghanaians will\nbe in a better position to determine whether or not he has fulfilled his\npro"},"modified":"2019-07-10T15:02:40","modified_gmt":"2019-07-10T15:02:40","slug":"i-wont-lie-to-you-nana-assures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/07\/10\/i-wont-lie-to-you-nana-assures\/","title":{"rendered":"I Won\u2019t Lie To You! Nana Assures"},"content":{"rendered":"

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President Nana Akufo-Addo<\/strong><\/p>\n

The President, Nana Addo Dankwa
\nAkufo-Addo, has said that by the end of his four-year mandate, Ghanaians will
\nbe in a better position to determine whether or not he has fulfilled his
\npromises, adding that he has no intention to deceive the people.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe are two and half years into
\na four-year mandate, and what I continue to insist and tell the people of Ghana
\nis that by the end of my mandate, they will see that I came to tell them the
\ntruth about what I wanted to do. I didn\u2019t come to deceive anybody,\u201d the
\nPresident stressed.<\/p>\n

Addressing Ghanaian residents on
\nMonday in Paris, France, where he is on a state visit on the invitation of
\nFrench President, Emmanuel Macron, President Akufo-Addo said, \u201cI know that my
\nopponents will be saying something else, but that is their right. God willing,
\non 7th<\/sup> December 2020, the day of accountability, we will know who is
\ntelling the truth.\u201d<\/p>\n

He said the New Patriotic Party
\n(NPP) government he is leading is fulfilling its campaign promises by putting
\nin place sound policies and programmes to make Ghana better, and the electorate
\nwould be the better judge in 2020.<\/p>\n

Patriotic Citizens<\/strong><\/p>\n

President Akufo-Addo said the
\ntime had come for Ghanaians to \u2018cherish\u2019 their nationality and not aid
\nforeigners to be part of national identification process.<\/p>\n

\u201cLet us cherish our nationality; let us
\ncherish our citizenship. Don\u2019t let any of you be party to trying to get the
\nGhana Card for people who are not Ghanaian. A lot of the time, it is our own
\npeople who are leading this exercise of getting non-Ghanaians our Ghana Card,\u201d
\nhe said. <\/p>\n

\u201cWe are trying to make sure NHIS works for
\nGhanaians, and adding non-Ghanaian population to that only strains the service.
\nI don\u2019t think Ghanaian taxpayers should be subsidizing our health care for
\nothers. I say this with the greatest of respect to those who are not Ghanaian,
\nbut if you have the card, then you have the access,\u201d the President added. <\/p>\n

West African Elections<\/strong><\/p>\n

He said, \u201cThese elections that we have, some
\npeople want to translate Ghanaian elections into West African elections. We
\nhave not yet gotten to a situation where Togolese, Ivorians and Malians can
\nvote in Ghana elections. That should not be the case. The elections should be
\nfor Ghanaians, and, if all of us are vigilant, we can make sure that that is
\nthe reality.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cMy own belief is that we should make sure
\nthat this process is completed for everybody before we bring the election
\noverseas. We all know that there are people holding our papers who are not
\nnecessarily Ghanaian. It is not a secret, and we shouldn\u2019t be dishonest about
\nit and deny it. It is a fact,\u201d he pointed out.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf this process of giving each of us an identity card is what is going to be able to determine who is and who is not a Ghanaian, I think that we should have that process completed before we can bring the overseas vote into play,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

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The President also announced to the Ghanaian
\nresidents that Ghana has been selected by the Africa Union to host the African
\nContinental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Secretariat, describing it as \u201cone of the most
\nimportant things that the AU has done.\u201d<\/p>\n

He expressed confidence that the AfCFTA will
\n\u201cgive us the
\nopportunity to bring the 1.2 billion people on our continent into active play
\nin developing our continent. We have to find a way of developing our continent
\nourselves. We can\u2019t continue to depend on foreigners to develop our continent
\nfor us.\u201d <\/p>\n

He commended the late President John Evans Atta Mills for being the first Ghanaian President to move the motion for the establishment of the Continental Free Trade Area in 2011.<\/p>\n

By Charles Takyi-Boadu, Presidential Correspondent<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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