The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, is soliciting the support of religious leaders in the country to transform the state. The vision, which he says “I believe is possible” is hinged on his record as Vice President.
Trumpeting his competences at a breakfast meeting with religious leaders as part of his campaign tour to the Eastern Region Monday, April 29, 2024, Dr. Bawumia said although it is not everything they’ve been able to do as a country, his achievements so far, when given the needed support, will propel him to transform Ghana.
“I believe that if you support me, we will transform Ghana. I believe it is possible. My record as Vice President tells you that I am a doer, a problem solver, a generational thinker. I know that it’s not everything that we have done,” he told the religious leaders.
The flag bearer of the NPP also disclosed his intentions to create a golden age generation between Faith-Based Organisations (FBOs) and the government.
He noted that the relationship will help the FBOs to get some relief from the government in the execution of their projects since they are going to provide incentives for them.
“I want to tell the people of God in this room that I want us –government and the Faith-Based Organisations (FBOs), to have a very close relationship and I have said that if you look at the work that the FBOs –the churches –have done for Ghana, it is more than any of the works that our external development partners would do for Ghana. The schools, hospitals they have built but we always don’t treat our FBOs as development partners in development.
“I want to bring a whole new chapter in the relationship between our churches, Islamic and FBOs. I am going to build a golden age between Faith-Based Organisations and the government,” he promised.
Explaining further, Dr. Bawumia said that golden age “means we are going to give incentives to the faith-based organisations to help government. There are a lot of incentives that we give to our external development partners. They bring in things duty-free and so on but they don’t give much for us as faith-based organisations.”
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