He stated that the NPP gov­ernment had done tremendously well with many landmark achieve­ments since assuming office in 2017.

“We have not had it all rosy and delivered everything that we set out to do from our day of initiation into office but the setbacks not­withstanding, we have produced a solid track record of achieve­ments,” Dr Bawumia pointed out.

While highlighting some global and domestic factors which have affected the country recently, the vice president insisted that it was unfathomable for any person to claim NPP does not have message for the citizenry going into the 2024 elections.

Addressing the NPP Interna­tional Women’s Conference in London on June 10, 2023, Dr Bawumia’s extensive address in London, cheered on by members, supporters, faithful, well-wishers and sympathisers of the party, said the government’s efforts must be appreciated since it was important to recollect the state of the country and challenges it inherited as well as the solutions it had proffered to address them.

He listed, among others, high unemployment, power outages for four years, virtually collapsed National Health Insurance Scheme, nearly collapsed National Ambu­lance System, freeze on public sec­tor employment, almost collapsed banking sector, annual increases in utility bills, poor economic indica­tors, low agricultural growth and low industry growth.

Dr Bawumia added that can­cellation of teacher and nursing training allowances and huge burden of paying $1 billion dollars annually for “take-or-pay” excess energy capacity deal negotiated by the previous National Democratic Congress (NDC) government.

After listing the numerous challenges the government inher­ited, the vice president presented comprehensive list of policies, programmes, projects and social interventions in every sector they had implemented to address the challenges in employment, educa­tion, health, agriculture, industry, security, energy and digitalisation sectors.

Dr Bawumia also highlight­ed better growth in agriculture, industry and further touted the government’s numerous achieve­ments in the health sector includ­ing introduction of drones for emergency delivery of medical supplies to remote areas, treatment for children with cancers as well as Agenda 111.

He also spoke extensively on government’s achievements in reviving the industrial sector, high­lighting particularly the revival of Anglogold Ashanti, establishment of many factories under the “One District One Factory” initiative and digitisation.

The vice president hastened to add that, that does not mean the government had done everything it intended to do or ought to have done but there was lot more to do and would will work hard to do that.