Former President John Mahama has laid the blame for Ghana’s economic problems at the feet of Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta.
He claims that the President’s apparent inability to oust Mr. Ofori-Atta from his position is aggravating the circumstance.
“To be clear, we’re in this mess because of an untouchable Finance Minister relying on his Databank workers and neglecting the advice of seasoned experts at the Finance Ministry. He has been left to run this economy into the ground’.
We’re in this mess because of the so called solid Economic Management Team, who over the last several years has been unable to call the President’s cousin (Ofori-Atta) to order when he embarked on a reckless borrowing spree”.
In his remarks at an economics lecture on Thursday, he emphasized that the depreciation of the Cedi and other economic problems facing the nation are the result of the sector minister’s and the entire Akufo-Addo regime’s incompetence.
“For the avoidance of doubt, we in the NDC will not have dared been reckless or would we have been allowed to be irresponsible in the handling of the public purse and the nation’s resources as the NPP has done.
We would not have been reckless and even society would not have allowed us to do some of the things that they have done. We’ve had our set of challenges in government. But nothing we did, or the outcome thereof has come anyway near close to the disaster unfolding before our eyes today”, he said.
The lecture’s focus was on “Building The Ghana We Want.”
Speaking of the hardships Ghanaians were experiencing, he promised that the incoming NDC administration will use wise economic reforms and policies to deliver Ghana from its predicament.
In order to save the economy, he also asked the current administration to take into account steps like reducing the number of government appointments.
On Sunday, October 30, President Nana Akufo-Addo will also address the public on the economic difficulties the nation and its citizens are facing.
The speech will be broadcast live at 8:00 p.m. on “GTV and on major television networks around the country,” according to the post.
On Thursday, the President announced this in a Facebook post.
