SONA 2023: President Akufo-Addo lists 15 successes under his leadership

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo during his presentation on the State of the Nation Address in Parliament highlighted 15 successes under his leadership being the leader of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and the head of state in Ghana.

Below are the 15 successes highlighted in his speech

1. Implementation of a National Identification System with the Ghana card.
2.  Construction of more railways than any other government in the Fourth Republic.
3. Establishment of the Zongo Development Fund to address the needs of Zongo and inner-city communities and under their auspices, constructing more infrastructure in the Zongo Communities than any other government in the Fourth Republic.
4. Construction of more National Communication Authority (NCA) licensed fibre optic cable than any other government in the fourth republic (93% of the total).
5. Increased the proportion of the population with access to toilet facilities from 33% to 59%.
6. Increased the number of public libraries from 61 in 2017 to 115 in 2022.
7. Provision of more equipment (vehicles, ammunition, etc) to security services than any other government in the Fourth Republic.
8. The digital address system.
9. Improved significantly the financing of governance and anti-corruption MDAs like the Ministry of Justice and Office of the Attorney General, NCCE, CHRAJ, EOCO, etc.
10. Implementation of One District, One Factory Initiative. In four years, 106 companies are in operation under 1D1F. 148 factories under construction. This is the largest expansion of that sector since independence, he says.
11. Construction of more fish landing sites than any other government in the Fourth Republic.
12. Established Africa’s first national-scale electronic pharmacy platform.
13.  Provision of free Wifi to 700 senior high schools, 46 Colleges of Education, 260 district education offices, and an initial successful pilot of 13 public universities.
14.  Introduction of drones in the delivery of critical medicine, vaccines, and blood to people in remote parts of the country. The President said Ghana has the largest medical drone delivery service in the world with six Zipline Distribution Centres in Omenako, Mpanya, Vobsi, Sefwi Wiawso, Kete Krachi, and Anum.
15.  Oversee an improvement in revenue collection, with the introduction of an e-VAT and e-Invoicing System. For example, figures from nineteen (19) taxpaying companies onboarded unto the e-Vat system revealed total recorded monthly sales increasing from two hundred and twenty-two million cedis (GH¢222 million) in November 2021 to seven hundred and twenty million cedis (GH¢720 million) in November 2022. Again, in December 2021, total monthly sales of two hundred and eighty-four million cedis (GH¢284 million) also saw a huge increase to one billion cedis (GH¢1 billion) in December 2022.