Franklin Cudjoe, the President of IMANI Africa, has stated that Nurses and Midwives have been pampered for too long.
He claims that the NDC and NPP governments have prioritised political point-scoring above significant structural changes.
He called the politicisation of allowances for teachers and student nurses a shortsighted strategy that undermines Ghana’s educational and healthcare sectors.
Speaking on Channel One TV, Franklin Cudjoe stated, “How have we treated nurses even when they are training—we’ve pampered them. Haven’t we?”
“Politically, one party says—John Mahama—that he is not going to pay any nurses’ allowance. The opposition at the time used it against him. And when they came, they started paying and rewarding these entities. I have never understood that game,” he noted.
Franklin Cudjoe warned, “The moment we do these shifty politics and think we can garner votes through these freebies to a section of the population that do not require it, that do not need it, we should not be crying now that they have come back biting at us”.
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