My aim to make life easier for Ghanaians if elected as President – Bawumia
Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, the vice president and presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), has stated that if he wins the presidency in the next general elections, his goal is to make life easy for the populace.
He claims to have designed a number of laws and initiatives to give Ghanaians easy access to necessities of life, similar to those in affluent nations.
During his campaign tour in the Volta Region, he made this statement to the people of the Ho Municipality.
According to Dr. Bawumia, the administration of President Akufo-Addo established a strong basis for digitizing the nation’s economy, which he deemed essential to Ghana’s development in the twenty-first century.
“For the last two years, we have been working on putting together the credit score system for Ghana. My thinking was that next year we will finish. But by the grace of God, I am happy to say we have completed the work for the credit system to start. It is possible.
“By the grace of God on the 7th of November I will launch Ghana’s credit scoring system.
“And it is going to be the second country I believe in Africa to have a very effective credit scoring system. And that is going to make Ghana a very different country.
“If you want to give them [female traders] loans and you ask them to go to the banks, they are going to be very intimidated because the banks are going to ask for a lot of documentation that they do not have. So, when it comes to informal women’s trading, we are rather setting up the Women Trade Empowerment Fund, the only requirement to obtain your loan will be your Ghana Card” He said.
