infrastructure for growth and job creation

INFRASTRUCTURE FOR
GROWTH AND JOB
CREATION
Achieving Universal Water Coverage by
2025 whilst promoting comprehensive
environmental sanitation
Water & Sanitation
• Complete all ongoing water supply projects.
• Provide potable water to district capitals.
• Provide potable water to all major health and
educational facilities.
• Protect water bodies.
Water & Sanitation
• Ensure the completion of the Accra Sanitary Sewer
and Storm Water Drainage Alleviation Project.
• Complete the construction of the Mudor Faecal
Treatment Plant at Lavender Hill in Accra.
• Support the construction of the Accra Compost and
Recycling Plant and site a second facility in Kumasi.
• Establish the Plastic Waste Recycling Fund.
Water & Sanitation
Housing
We will continue to
bridge the housing
deficit through
direct government
interventions
and Public Private
Partnerships
Fixing the energy challenge
- not just managing it !
ENERGY
Power
• Increase generation capacity in excess of 5,000
Megawatts by 2021 and achieve universal access to
electricity by 2025
• Complete more thermal power projects
• Renewable Energy - e.g. solar and wind (along the
Eastern Corridor of Greater Accra
ENERGY
Oil and Gas
Ensure fuel security:
• Increase gas production to 300mscfd by 2018
• Complete the 150km reverse flow gas pipeline from
Aboadze to Tema.
• Ramp up production at the Tema Oil Refinery (TOR) to
its full capacity of 60,000 bpsd.
• Construct a new 100,000 bpsd refinery at the site of
TOR.
ENERGY
We will continue working on many road projects to
open up the country to reduce road traffic accidents,
boost economic activities, and convey agricultural
produce with ease
ROADS & TRANSPORT
Roads
Priority interventions to provide safe and relaible roads:
• Completing on-going road projects e.g. The Kasoa
interchange, Bolga-Bawku, eastern and western
corridor
• Improving access roads to major health facilities.
• Improving access to major tourism sites e.g. Kakum
(Central Region), Wli Falls (Volta Region) and Lake
Bosomtwe (Ashanti Regions).
• Improving the all year round motorability of rural
roads.
ROADS & TRANSPORT
• Dualisation of the:
1. Accra - Cape Coast – Takoradi road
2. Accra – Kumasi road
ROADS & TRANSPORT
Transport
• Continue to invest in the modernisation, expansion,
improvement of our ports and safety on the Volta
Lake.
• To revive the Black Star Line to increase employment
opportunities for Seafarers.
• Explore the potential of building a new port at Keta.
• Upgrade the Akosombo and Buipe Ports.
ROADS & TRANSPORT
Railways
• Commence work on the construction of the Western
Railway line (Kojokrom-Awaso-Dunkwa-Kumasi).
• Continue work on the reconstruction of the Eastern
Railway line from Tema to Kumasi via the Boankra
Inland Port.
• Complete work on the construction of the SekondiTakoradi via Kojokrom sub-urban railway line.
• Build sub-urban railway lines between AccraAmasaman-Nsawam and Kumasi-Ejisu
• Continue work on the Tema-Akosombo Line
ROADS & TRANSPORT
ICT, SCIENCE,
TECHNOLOGY AND
INNOVATION
ICT and Telecommunication
Mobile telephony subscription has increased from 11 million in
2008 to over 33 million
Continue all on going
initiatives e.g. e- CICIs,
e-Government Project and
Tertiary Institution Connectivity
Programme.
Continue to extend
telephony connectivity and
ICT services to deprived
communities.
Facilitate the passage of
the Broadcasting Bill.
Empower NIA to issue
intelligent ID Cards
Commence the
development of ‘Smart
Cities’ & the ICT Park.
• Establish free wi-fi hot spot in the secondary and
tertiary education institutions.
• Complete the Ghana-Mauritius ICT Park Project.
• Integrate the diverse biometric databases.
• Work with the BoG and other stakeholders to ensure
a full cash-lite society by 2020.
ICT, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
Science, Technology
and Innovation
• Initiate the establishment of a National Institution for
Nano-Science, Material Science and Biotechnology.
• Expand the Mathematics, Science and Technology
Scholarships Scheme (MASTESS).
• Work towards attaining the national objective of
60:40 admission ratio in tertiary institutions in favour
of the sciences.
ICT, SCIENCE, TECHNOLOGY AND INNOVATION
Continuing with Ghana’s commendable progress
in good governance, transparency, fight against
corruption in an enabled environment with
empowered citizens
GOVERNANCE
INSTITUTIONS
RULE OF LAW
• Support the development of the human resource
capacity of the Parliamentary Service.
• Complete the e-justice project
GOVERNANCE INSTITUTIONS
The Media
• Support the National Media Commission (NMC) to
decentralise its operations and obtain a permanent
office.
• Commit more resources to the Media Development
Fund for capacity building initiatives.
• Enactment of the Broadcasting Bill.
GOVERNANCE INSTITUTIONS
• Provide set-up boxes to vulnerable households with
TV sets.
• Ensure complete Analogue Switch Off by September
21, 2017.
• Implement the Right to Information Bill when passed
by Parliament.
GOVERNANCE INSTITUTIONS
Decentralisation and
Local Governance
• Fully implement the National Decentralisation
Policy Framework II (2015-2019) and the National
Decentralisation Action Plan II (2015-2019).
GOVERNANCE INSTITUTIONS
• Initiate the processes to implement the CRC’s
recommendation to pay Assembly Members.
• Implement the new procedure for appointing
MMDCEs in the Government White Paper on the CRC
report.
• Complete the property-addressing and electronic
mapping of properties in towns and cities.
• Modernise major local markets in the districts.
Combating Corruption
• Support CHRAJ and NDPC to monitor and co-ordinate
the effective implementation of the National AntiCorruption Action Plan (NACAP).
• Under NACAP, set up a Special Unit in the office of
the Director of Public Prosecutions dedicated to anticorruption prosecutions, working with the EOCO,
CHRAJ and other bodies.
• Support FIC to combat money laundering and terrorist
financing.
GOVERNANCE INSTITUTIONS
• Initiate effective investigations and prosecution of
corrupt conduct as well as recovery of stolen assets.
• Strengthen Anti-Corruption and Law Enforcement
institutions.
GOVERNANCE INSTITUTIONS
Strengthening ability to respond to
contemporary security challenges
SECURITY AND
INTERNATIONAL
RELATIONS
Peace and Security
• Increase the numerical strength of the security
agencies and provide the needed logistics.
• Strengthen the capacity of the Security Agencies to
combat child and human trafficking, cybercrime,
terrorism and narcotics.
• Pass the Ghana Immigration Service (Amendment)
Regulations and the Prisons (Amendment) Bill.
• Assist the Ghana Airforce to establish a flight training
school.
SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
International Relations
• Sustain the policy of Non-Alignment and Economic
Diplomacy
• Increase collaboration with relevant external
organisations to fight international terrorism, cyberattacks and piracy, especially in West Africa.
SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
• Intensify our focus on Ghanaians abroad and people
of African descent to tap into their rich experience
and also bring investments into Ghana.
• Support the creation of a continental free trade area
in 2017.
SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL RELATIONS
Conclusion
“This Manifesto highlights contains policies
and programmes that will consolidate the
achievements so far chalked and in addition,
introduce new initiatives that will launch Ghana
into a new era of accelerated growth and the
transformation of our country.”
Countrymen, the task ahead is
great indeed, and heavy is the
responsibility; and yet it is a noble
and glorious challenge - a challenge
which calls for the courage to dream,
the courage to believe, the courage
to dare, the courage to do, the
courage to envision, the courage
to fight, the courage to work, the
courage to achieve - to achieve the
highest excellencies and the fullest
greatness of man. Dare we ask for
more in life?”
Osagyefo Kwame Nkrumah
On this note, I invite you all to,
join my Campaign to secure the
mandate for my second and final
term to change more lives and
transform Ghana.
THANK YOU