{"id":182087,"date":"2024-05-14T11:33:16","date_gmt":"2024-05-14T11:33:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/05\/14\/ghana-would-struggle-without-the-church-and-fbos-ill-not-tax-them\/"},"modified":"2024-05-14T11:33:16","modified_gmt":"2024-05-14T11:33:16","slug":"ghana-would-struggle-without-the-church-and-fbos-ill-not-tax-them","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/05\/14\/ghana-would-struggle-without-the-church-and-fbos-ill-not-tax-them\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana would struggle without the church and FBOs; I&#8217;ll not tax them"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has justified his promise to incentivise churches and faith-based Organizations (FBOs).<\/p>\n<p>Dr Bawumia made the promise during an engagement with the clergy as part of his tour of the Bono East Region.<\/p>\n<p>This has since generated mixed reactions on social and traditional media.<\/p>\n<p>But at a similar engagement in the North East Region, the vice president reiterated the promise arguing it\u2019s the logical thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLook at the number of hospitals the churches have built, look at the number of universities the churches have built and the faith-based organization have built\u2026Can you imagine, just take a thought for a moment that you wake up tomorrow and all the schools and universities the churches have built disappear? How will Ghana be like?\u201d Dr. Bawumia noted.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Ghana will be on the losing side if that happens.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGhana will collapse. Isn\u2019t it? We will not survive in this sort of situation because there will be chaos\u201d he added<\/p>\n<p>He, however, used the opportunity to clarify that the promise is not to pay churches but to provide them with incentives.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Bawumia wondered why people support incentives provided to international development partners and not to local development partners like Churches and faith-based organizations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen we talk about our external development partners, we have given them all sorts of exemptions. 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