No merchant will return the stimulus package against coronavirus under my government

General news for Thursday, October 29, 2020

Source: Peace FM

2020-10-29

National Democratic Congress (NDC) presidential candidate John Dramani Mahama has advised merchants and recipients of the state’s COVID-19 stimulus package to ignore false claims by pro-government propagandists that the next NDC government will demand of them. let them pay. .

Describing the claims as “lies” and “cheap politicking,” Mahama said that no trader will return the COVID-19 stimulus package under his next government.

Addressing the chiefs and people of Doryumu on Tuesday as part of his five-day campaign tour of the Greater Accra region, he said that some elements within the ruling party were selling falsehoods against the NDC and threatening beneficiary merchants with the package refund.

“They are giving money to merchants and saying it is a loan to support their work, but if you vote for us and NPP stays, we will not collect it. But if John Mahama comes, he will get the money back; I also won’t pick it up. So whatever money they give you, take it. It’s free money, me too when it comes, I won’t collect it, ”he said.

Mahama said that it is the NDC government that established the Stabilization Fund to deal with emergencies like COVID-19, adding that the next NDC government will not go after any beneficiary merchants for the money.

He said it is cheap and unfortunate that the government is trying to use the stimulus package to gain partisan political points, especially since such money was accumulated in the Stabilization Fund by the then Mahama government.

Mahama said that the Akufo-Addo government cannot buy Ghanaians’ vote after failing to deliver on promises it made to Ghanaians in 2016.

He concluded by urging electorates to vote for the NPP in the general election on December 7, 2020 and bring back the NDC to work hard to provide jobs, implement free primary health care and create an opportunity for all Ghanaians, not some few privileged.