Ghana’s Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has disclosed that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo with intensed passion, to improve on the economy of the citizenry, has added more than 150,000 households to the Livelihood Empowerment Against Poverty (LEAP) programme thereby improving their livelihoods.
The Finance Minister said government also increased the share of the Disability Common Fund (DACF) to persons with disabilities from two per cent, (2%) to three per cent, (3%) and also doubled the Capitation Grant (From GH¢0.5 to GH¢410.0), and restored Teacher and Nurses Training Allowances.
He said Electricity tariff have been reduced to 17.5 per cent for households and 30 per cent for businesses, the GH¢1.2 billion arrears inherited under the NHIS have been cleared and NHIS was working again.
“The days of ailing health insurance are now behind us. We have re-energised the scheme, which is now able to settle its bills, thereby ensuring that many more Ghanaians have access to quality healthcare across the country.”
Mr. Ofori-Atta said: “We have paid all arrears since 2014, that we came to meet.”
On food crop farmers, he said the the farmers had been provided with subsidised (50 per cent subsidy) fertiliser under the planting for food and jobs programme.
That, the Minister said, had resulted in increased output and lower food prices.
“We have provided jobs to 100,000 graduates under the Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) across every constituency in Ghana,” he stated.
