As part of a comprehensive package to promote private investment and stimulate accelerated development of Ghana, the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is proposing a new funding model to build massive infrastructure in the country.
In its 2024 manifesto, the governing party indicated that it will partner the private sector to finance, build, and rent or lease-toown to government, public infrastructure, including school, housing, water, and roads, as well as equipment.
This policy, according to the Vice President and NPP flagbearer for the 2024 general election Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, will free government revenue for other critical sectors of the economy.
NPP also intends to revive and resource, including with modern equipment and state-of-the-art workshops, the Public Works Department (PWD), to be the primary government agency responsible for maintenance of public infrastructure across the country.
The party also pledged to fully-implement and expand the District Road Improvement Programme (DRIP), under which local governments have been supplied with equipment, to help maintain roads in their Districts.
It added that it will, “Through partnerships with private sector investors, develop the railway network across the country based on the Master Plan, with strategic focus on the Western and Eastern Lines in the medium term. The two lines, which are of high economic importance, will be prioritised for development and completion.”
Furthermore, the governing NPP promised to facilitate the establishment, by the private sector, of a Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) facility at the Tamale Airport, to develop it into an aviation cargo, horticultural cargo, and logistics hub.
It will also commence the development of the Cape Coast Airport, for which funding has been secured under the Korean $2 billion facility, and in collaboration with the private sector, build an airport in the Upper East Region.
The under the presidency of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia in 2025, the NPP pledged to achieve universal access to electricity.
