Mahama has stolen my 2016 manifesto ideas, says Nana Konadu

The flagbearer of the National Democratic Party (NDP), Nana Konadu Agyeman-Rawlings, has accused the presidential candidate of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Mahama, of stealing her ideas on skills training and development.

According to Agyeman-Rawlings, she was insulted for introducing the ideas on how to help reduce unemployment in the lead-up to the 2016 polls.

Konadu vindicated

Speaking in an interview with GHOne TV’s 2020 Woman, the former first lady said that although she was condemned in 2016 for proposing the ideas, Mahama is campaigning in 2020 with her proposals as though they are his original ideas.

“Now I can see that even though I was condemned in 2016 about skills development and skills training [and] making salt, other people have stolen the ideas and put them in their manifestos,” she alleged.

Asked about which people have stolen her ideas, Agyeman-Rawlings said she had recently heard that the former president John Mahama has been going to town with the same policy ideas.

“I heard former president Mahama saying we can now make salt. [And he also said] skill training and skill development are now the best. They were insulting me about it, and I said it is key to a country’s development,” the former first lady said.

Nana Konadu stressed again that it is impossible to have 12 million people going to school and all of them becoming graduates. Every nation needs a “categorisation of specific duties”, she argued.

Watch excerpts of the interview below:

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