The New Patriotic Party (NPP) flagbearer’s running mate, Dr Matthew Opoku Prempeh, has accused the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) of misleading voters with false promises about improving the National Health Insurance Scheme (NHIS).

According to him, during the 2016 general elections, the NDC pledged to enhance the NHIS if it won the election, but this promise was a complete deception.

In 2016, the NDC said that when they come, they will reinstate one-time insurance. What President Mills did, they said they would improve it. Am I lying? But when they came and President Mills implemented the one-time insurance, people started dying because there’s no such thing as one-time insurance in the world.

Speaking at the NPP’s health walk in Takoradi on Saturday, August 17, ahead of the party’s manifesto launch on Sunday, Dr Prempeh claimed that the NDC used deceptive tactics to win the 2008 elections.

He likened Ghanaians to the behaviour of the Israelites, saying Ghanaians often ignore advice until it is too late.

Dr Prempeh also argued that Ghanaians should not have voted against NPP’s former President Kufuor, given the work he did for the country.

In 2008, 2010, and 2015, Ghanaians started dying and began calling on God. We Ghanaians are behaving like the Israelites; we don’t heed advice, and when God leaves us for a while, we turn to the wrong paths. The work that President Kufuor did, Ghanaians should not have voted against the NPP.

He further criticised the NDC for initially dismissing the NPP’s Free Senior High School (SHS) policy, stating that they claimed they would not have used GH₵2 billion for Free SHS.

This, Dr Prempeh pointed out that the same NDC now claims to have initiated the Free SHS policy.

Today, you hear them saying they were the ones who started the policy. If you were the ones who began the policy, would you have said that even with 2 billion Ghana cedis, you wouldn’t use it for Free SHS? Dr Prempeh asked.