Dennis Miracles Aboagye, the campaign spokesperson for Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, has called on Ghanaians to resist the National Democratic Congress’s (NDC) efforts to persuade them to vote for the opposition party in the 2024 general elections.
Mr. Aboagye’s statement comes in response to recent comments made by John Mahama, alleging that the Free SHS and National Health Insurance policies were implemented by the NDC. He discussed these claims during an episode of the social media program “The Next Chapter,” organized by the campaign team.
Mr. Aboagye pointed out that during the 2008 election, the NDC had leveled similar accusations, only to dismantle social programs initiated by the John Kufuor administration once they assumed power.
He clarified that the National Health Insurance Policy was actually implemented by former President John Agyekum Kufuor, contradicting Mahama’s assertion that the NDC had initiated the policy in Damongo and Nkoranza. According to Mr. Aboagye, the concept of health insurance in Ghana arose due to the Rawlings administration’s replacement of a free healthcare policy with a ‘cash and carry’ system.
The deficiencies of this system prompted the Catholic Church, with funding from the community and a Dutch NGO, to introduce a health insurance scheme in Nkoranza and Damongo.
It is not true that the NHIS was piloted by the NDC in Nkoranza and Damongo. It was the Catholic Church, in collaboration with the community and supported by a non-governmental organization, that financed it,
insisted, Mr. Aboagye.
