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Three top issues; educa\u00adtion, health and employ\u00adment, will determine the outcome of this year\u2019s elections, a new research report by the Nation\u00adal Commission on Civic Education (NCCE) has revealed.<\/p>\n
It found that while these matters have remained topmost concern to Ghanaians, influencing voting pat\u00adtern in the last two general election measures outlined by candidates to address prevailing bottlenecks in these sectors was likely to be the de\u00adciding factor on which party forms the next government.<\/p>\n
Launched in Accra yesterday, the \u201cMatters of Concern to the Gha\u00adnaian Voter\u201d report, is the result of data collected in August this year, capturing 9,324 respondents across all 16 regions of the country.<\/p>\n
Dr Henrietta Asante-Sarpong, the Director of Research, Monitoring and Evaluation at the Commission, stressed that addressing challenges associated with the free Senior High School policy, expanding education\u00adal infrastructure and resourcing edu\u00adcational institution to aid teaching and learning formed some specific demands by citizens for redress by the next government in the education sector. She said, however, creating employment opportunities by building more factories, rolling out more youth employment pro\u00adgrammes and supporting businesses to thrive were highly anticipated from the next government.<\/p>\n
In the area of health, Dr As\u00adante-Sarpong indicated that 47 per cent of respondents expected an expansion in health infrastructure, followed by an improvement of the national health insurance scheme (NHIS) to have wider coverage and the equipping of health centres with modern equipment for better health outcomes.<\/p>\n
According to her, the research pointed out that of all 19 key issues of concern to voters, matters bor\u00addering on environment and climate change, information, communica\u00adtion and technology, housing and rule of law were the least priority to Ghanaians.<\/p>\n
Dr Asante-Sarpong indicated that Ghanaians were gradually shifting away from party affiliate entrenched stance to vote in elections to more issues-based focus as the report es\u00adtablished that of factors influencing choice of presidential candidates in the upcoming elections, policies, track record and experiences were topmost instead of money induce\u00adment, religion, ethnicity or recom\u00admendation of friends.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe combined effect of findings on voter turnout, determinants of voter choices and the key issues of concern presented suggest that the Ghanaian voter has hope and aspi\u00adrations in the democratic process.<\/p>\n
This calls for effective imple\u00admentation and enforcement of manifesto promises on the top five sectors identified, including roads, infrastructure and economy,\u201d Dr Asante-Sarpong added.<\/p>\n
The Chairperson of the NCCE, Kathleen Addy, noted that for Ghana\u2019s democracy to be sustained, it behooved all and sundry to play their respective roles.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe have managed to execute several elections creditably so far but as soon as we elect people, we go and sleep but we must do more than that. We must sustain an accountability, holding leaders accountable throughout the process of governance.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ms Addy observed that while keen attention was paid to nation\u00adal politics, that could not be said for local government which was responsible for grassroots develop\u00adment and which also had direct im\u00adpact on citizenry, charging citizens, therefore, to \u201ctry and get our local authorities to work for us and to deliver on their mandate.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cOur share of the national cake is at the local assemblies so in trying to be active citizens, let\u2019s try and use all the avenues available to ensure that we are part of the solution to the problems that we face in our communities,\u201d she charged.<\/p>\n
\u00a0BY ABIGAIL ANNOH<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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