President Nana Akufo-Addo has announced that the government is expected to launch what they call Performance Tracker to account their stewardship to Ghanaians. He said the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia will formally launch the digital platform in March 2024.
“This year, we are taking things to a higher level. This Government, after all, is the Digitalisation Government, and the man who has led the entire digitalisation process these past seven (7) years, my indefatigable Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, Dr Digitalisation, the NPP’s excellent presidential candidate for the 2024 election, is coming up with what will allow everyone and anyone to check on every project being undertaken by the government without having to listen to the President’s Message on the State of the Nation.”
Nana Akufo-Addo made the disclosure when he addressed his penultimate State of the Nation Address (SONA 2024) on Tuesday, February 27, 2024.
According to him, the Performance Tracker will help bring accountability emphasising with the Performance Tracker, “We can be sure that never again will pictures of an artist’s impression be offered as projects that have been executed.”
“…You can check and satisfy yourself about the status of the projects and their location, and you could stop by and make a physical inspection if you were so minded. Mr Speaker, if you want to check on roads, classroom blocks or CHIP compounds or Agenda 111 hospitals, or bridges, or science laboratories, or water projects, or sanitation projects, or landing sites and harbours, and other infrastructural projects, or whatever this Government used your tax money to execute, the key to your query is right there on your phone” he stated.
President Nana Akufo-Addo told Parliament that his government took the decision seven years ago to modernize and formalize the economy through digitalization.
He added thanks to the Performance Tracker, the President no longer has to go through lists, and expressed confidence to say that every performance indicator used shows they have done more in these seven (7) years than in any of the eight (8) years under the NDC.
“I am able to recommend the Performance Tracker in the sure knowledge that the Akufo-Addo Government has done more in education in terms of student enrolment, teacher training and employment, provision of infrastructure, than any government; we have similarly done more in health, agriculture, security, roads, railways, tourism, digitalisation than any other Government.”
In this regard, the President stated the New Patriotic Party (NPP) led administration has embarked on one of the most far-reaching digitalisation exercises in Africa, stating up from the figure of nine hundred thousand (900,000), which they inherited when in 2017, “We have, thus far, enrolled 17.6 million on the Ghanacard, and, therefore, provided unique biometric identity to the majority of Ghanaians. We have also implemented a digital property address system with unique addresses for all properties in Ghana.”
