President John Dramani Mahama has boasted that his government has carried out the vision Democratic Presidential nominee Hillary Clinton has for America already in this country.
The President made the claim during a rally in Asamanakese in the Eastern Region, echoing sentiments already expressed earlier by Chief Dele Momodu of Ovation.
According to the President, Hillary Clinton has promised to invest in infrastructure because she understands that it is the foundation for other forms of development – and he has already carried out the infrastructural development in this country.
“If you look at Hilary Clinton’s economic plan, she’s promising to invest 250 billion dollars in economic and social infrastructure. She is now coming to invest this amount when elected. Ghana has already started investing in socioeconomic infrastructure already. This is because socioeconomic infrastructure is the foundation of every development.” the President said.

He added: “Without electricity, potable water, roads, hospitals, schools, there will be no foundation. So what are you going to build on? Nothing. Social and economic infrastructure is like skeletons to the body, without them the body cannot stand. And so you have to build social and economic infrastructure first and then after that you put livelihood empowerment on top of it.”
This is a sharp turn from the utterances of the NDC when they were in opposition, having once famously wondered ‘whether we can eat roads’. But then Ghana politics is all about perspective, a situation is good or bad depending on whether you’re in power or in opposition.