THE Greater Accra Regional Women’s Organiser of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Ms Vida Dugbartey, has urged Ghanaian women to show gratitude to the NPP government by voting massively for Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
She said since 2001, the NPP administration’s policies had been geared towards lessening the economic and social burden on Ghanaian women.
Speaking to the Daily Graphic in Accra, Ms Dugbartey named some of the policies as macroeconomic policies, which had brought down interest rates. Some other policies she mentioned were the Capitation Grant, School Feeding Programme, Free Antenatal Care, National Health Insurance Scheme, among others.
She said all these policies had ameliorated the otherwise hardship that women might have undergone from the point of delivery to educating their children.
“Those days that mothers were held captives at hospitals for their inability to pay for their antenatal bills are now over. This situation has also prevented instances where expecting mothers, who could not raise funds to pay for their antenatal care, caused illegal abortions. Thanks to the NPP administration,” she said.
Ms Dugbartey said another reason why Ghanaian women should vote for Nana Akufo-Addo was that he had promised to build on the achievements on President Kufuor and also make senior high school free.
She said the benefits of such policies were that the money that parents, especially women might have used in paying for such services could now be channelled towards other useful purposes.
She also urged Ghanaian women to challenge the National Democratic Congress (NDC) flag bearer, Prof. John Evans Atta Mills, to also come clear on what he would do for women of this country when given the opportunity.
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