The Member of Parliament for Asutifi South, Alhaji Collins Dauda, has said the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) under President Nana Akufo-Addo administration is gradually losing their popularity in the Ahafo Region.
According to Collins Dauda, the NPP become unpopular in the Ahafo Region due to the development former president John Dramani Mahama has done in the region.
The former Minister of Local Government and Rural Development added that the National Democratic Congress flagbearer established four new Nursing Training colleges for the youth to be enrolled into the schools during his tenure.
Collins Dauda said over 3000 students have been enrolled in each Nursing Training colleges opened by the former president.
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In other news, Yaw Osafo-Marfo, a senior presidential advisor to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has claimed that corruption in the nation is getting worse rather than better.
He asserts that the Church must be a key player in the fight against corruption in the nation.
Speaking to the 23rd General Meeting of the Presbyterian Church of Ghana over the weekend in Kwahu Abetifi in the Eastern Region, the former Finance and Education Minister questioned how we could defend the Christian faith when Christians were responsible for 70% of all funds stolen illegally from the public coffers annually.
“If there is that much decay in our body politics, the Christian community has a role to play. 70% of the population is Christianity so what kind of message do we continuously give to that population of the country, what kind of moral lesson are we able to put through this huge percentage? If we are not able to do anything to make certain changes then Christianity itself has a problem in terms of making our words work,” Osafo-Marfo stated.
Additionally, he stated that Ghana’s alarmingly high graduate unemployment rate is endangering national security.
He attributed the predicament to the educational system, which moved away from practical skill training and toward theory.
He claimed that he is uncomfortable with the way that nearly all of Ghana’s universities still offer humanities courses rather than technical programs.
