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GhanaWeb Feature by Ishmael Batoma:
Days earlier the 2024 statesmanlike election, President John Dramani Mahama, either assured of emerging victorious oregon arsenic a run tactic, signed a societal declaration with Ghanaians.
This contract, which Mahama dubbed, “Mahama’s First 120 Days Social Contract with the People of Ghana,” arsenic the sanction suggests, outlined things helium would undertake successful the archetypal 120 days of his government.
The committedness database had 25 actions, programmes, and policies Mahama promised to undertake wrong the 120 days, which are aimed astatine economical recovery, governance reform, and societal interventions.
Wednesday, May 7, 2025, marks precisely 120 days since President Mahama and his vice, Prof Naana Jane Opoku Agyemang - the archetypal pistillate vice president of Ghana, were sworn into bureau connected January 7, 2025.
This GhanaWeb nonfiction analyses Mahama’s 120-day societal declaration to ascertain the presumption of each the promises successful it.
Analysis:
The GhanaWeb Data Desk has evaluated 25 of these promises, assigning scores based connected their completion statuses by May 7, 2025 - the 120th time of Mahama’s presidency.
The scoring strategy awards 1 constituent for completed promises, 0.5 for partially completed promises and 0 for uncompleted promises.
In all, 17 retired of the 25 enactment items listed successful the declaration person been completed per GhanaWeb’s analysis, representing 68%. Three (3) of the promises, representing 12% of the total, person been partially completed truthful far, portion 5 (5), 20% – stay untouched.
Accumulating the points from the established scoring strategy gives President Mahama a people of 18.5 retired of 25.
This, successful percent terms, translates to the president scoring 74% connected his societal declaration with Ghanaians. The 74% people successful Ghana’s grading strategy is equivalent to a people B, which means that Mahama has done a “good,” not an “excellent” oregon a “very good” occupation connected his declaration with the radical of Ghana.
Here is simply a breakdown of the presumption of actionable items connected Mahama’s societal contract:
Completed enactment items connected the societal contract:
1. President Mahama has achieved his committedness to nominate, wrong the archetypal 14 days, the implicit database of Cabinet ministers for parliamentary approval.
The president, wrong the 14 days, nominated a full of 42 ministerial nominees, which included Cabinet, non-Cabinet and determination ministers.
All of these nominees were vetted and approved successful little than a month, which successful itself is unprecedented.
2. Mahama besides achieved his committedness to clasp a National Economic Dialogue to sermon the existent authorities of the system and hole a homegrown fiscal consolidation programme to usher the budget.
3. He established a seven-member National Economic Dialogue Planning Committee, led by renowned economist, Dr Ishmael Yamson, which organised the forum from March 3, 2025, to March 4, 2025.
Mahama has besides fulfilled his committedness to convene a nationalist consultative league connected acquisition to physique statement connected needed improvements to the sector.
The president established an eight-member committee to oversee the National Education Forum, which volition reappraisal the acquisition sector. The forum was held from February 18, 2025, to February 28, 2025.
4. Mahama besides promised to reopen investigations into large unresolved transgression cases, including the 2020 Election killings, Ayawaso West Wuogon by-election violence, the execution of Ahmed Hussein-Suale, and Silas Wulochamey.
He has truthful acold ordered the Inspector General of Police to unfastened investigations into electoral killings that were experienced successful the 2020 and 2024 elections.
5. Mahama promised, “Within my archetypal 90 days successful office, [I will] scrap the pursuing draconian taxes to alleviate hardships and easiness the precocious outgo of doing business: E-Levy, COVID Levy, 10% Levy connected Bet Winnings, and Emissions Levy.”
This committedness was achieved aft the transition of the 2025 Budget Statement and Economic Policy.
6. Mahama has besides achieved his committedness to instrumentality the ‘No-Academic-Fee’ argumentation for each first-year students successful nationalist tertiary institutions — universities, colleges of education, nursing grooming institutions, etc.
7. He has besides fulfilled his committedness to present the pursuing societal interventions: Free Tertiary Education for Persons with Disabilities and the Ghana Medical Care Trust (MahamaCares) Fund.
8. Mahama has besides achieved his committedness to commence the organisation of escaped sanitary pads to pistillate students successful superior and secondary schools.
9. He has allocated effect wealth of astir GH¢500 cardinal for the constitution of the Women’s Development Bank, arsenic promised.
10. He has besides launched the pursuing precedence occupation instauration programmes: the ‘Adwumawura’ Programme, the ‘National Apprenticeship Programme’, and the ‘One Million Coders Programme’.
11. As promised, Mahama has allocated monies to compensate the flood victims from the Akosombo Dam spillage, including those successful the Oti, Bono East, and Savannah regions.
12. The president promised to represent the “Leanest and Most Efficient" authorities nether the 4th Republic of not much than 60 ministers and lawman ministers successful his archetypal 90 days successful office.
The president, wrong 30 days of his government, appointed 56 ministerial and lawman ministerial nominees (23 ministers, 16 determination ministers, 13 lawman ministers and 4 ministers of state). It is not wide whether determination is going to beryllium an further ministerial oregon lawman ministerial assignment to get the 60 ministers helium indicated.
13. He besides promised to commence drafting needed ineligible amendments and hole for implementing the 24-Hour Economy Policy nether the Office of the President.
President Mahama, successful narration to this promise, has appointed erstwhile statesmanlike hopeful, Augustus Goosie Tanoh, arsenic the Presidential Advisor for the 24-Hour Economy and Accelerated Export Development. Augustus Goosie Tanoh has besides briefed Parliament connected the argumentation and presumption of the draught papers connected the policy.
14. President Mahama has besides fulfilled his committedness to found a robust "Code of Conduct and Standards" for each authorities officials.
15. He has besides instituted a authorities argumentation banning governmental appointees from purchasing authorities assets, arsenic promised. This committedness was 1 of the provisions listed successful the "Code of Conduct and Standards" for each authorities officials.
16. The government, arsenic promised, has besides commenced the reappraisal of the Customs (Amendment) Act 2020 to scrap the instrumentality banning the importation of salvaged vehicles to rescue the section automotive manufacture astatine Suame Magazine, Kokompe, Abossey Okai, among others.
17. He has besides launched ‘The Black Star Experience’ inaugural arsenic Ghana’s flagship culture, arts, and tourism marque to alteration Ghana into a preferred tourism destination.
Partially completed societal declaration promises:
President Mahama promised to prohibition amerciable and caller mining activities successful wood reserves, and rotation retired the ‘Tree for Life’ and Blue Water Initiative to heal and sustainably harness the situation by turning areas and h2o bodies degraded by amerciable mining into economical and ecological betterment hubs.
This committedness has been partially achieved because, adjacent though the president issued a directive, done the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), for the contiguous halt of amerciable mining activities successful forests and h2o bodies and launched the Tree for Life and Blue Water Initiative, helium has not repealed the instrumentality connected mining successful wood reserves, which volition wholly outlaw the signifier that was allowed by the erstwhile government.
2. Mahama has besides partially fulfilled his committedness to laic earlier Parliament a caller measure to streamline authorities assistance administration, prohibit governmental appointees from accessing authorities scholarships, and destruct governmental patronage, cronyism, nepotism, and corruption successful awarding authorities scholarships.
The Minister of Education has announced that the measure has been drafted and volition beryllium laid earlier Parliament, which has been connected recess for astir 2 months, erstwhile it reconvenes.
3. The committedness to transportation retired a shake-up of each loss-making State Owned Enterprises (SOEs) and realign them to interruption adjacent and modulation into profit-making has besides been partially fulfilled.
Though the presidency has held a fig of engagements with the heads of State-Owned Enterprises helium has appointed, a wide argumentation connected however to marque them profitable has not been outlined.
Uncompleted promises:
1. The president has besides failed to “within my archetypal 90 days successful office, reappraisal taxes and levies connected vehicles and instrumentality imported into the state for concern and cultivation purposes.”
2. Mahama has besides not achieved his committedness to found an Accelerated Export Development Council (AEDC) to beforehand exports arsenic portion of a broader strategy for economical transformation.
3. The president is besides yet to institute inquiries and/or forensic audits into the pursuing matters of nationalist interest: the illness of indigenous Ghanaian banks and fiscal institutions astatine a expected outgo of GH¢25 billion, amerciable printing of money, the US$58 cardinal National Cathedral scandal, amerciable and inflated single-sourced contracts, COVID-19 expenditure scandal, PDS, Agyapa, SML, ambulance spare parts deal, 13th African Games, Sky Train, Pwalugu Dam, mathematics sets, galamsey fraud, missing excavators and tricycles, Sputnik-V, BOST scandal, and others, arsenic helium promised.
4. His committedness to commence investigative processes to purge authorities information agencies of each militia and vigilante elements is besides yet to beryllium fulfilled.
5. He has besides not initiated a probe into the man-made catastrophe caused by the VRA’s spillage from the Akosombo and Kpong Dams that displaced and destroyed the livelihoods of thousands of citizens successful the Volta, Eastern, and Greater Accra regions.
All successful all, President John Dramani Mahama's administration, for the astir part, has shown commitment, largely, to achieving those contracts with the people of Ghana.
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