John Dramani Mahama, former President of Ghana said the government led by President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo had rejected his advice to rally the people in an effort to overturn the economic challenges facing the country.
Earlier,John Mahama said that in a situation like the current economic crisis, everyone’s support is very important.
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He said that in order for the government to get the support it needs to get the economy on track, it needs to be transparent on fundamental issues.
After including pensioners in a domestic debt swap that affected former Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo, Mahama said that as the country was experiencing an economic rift, he made several calls for dialogue. and national consensus on an economic program.
He attributed the arrogance and obstinacy of Nana Addo as well as the incompetence of Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta and the economic management team to bring the country to this state.
In a Facebook post, Mahama said we may have forged a broad, nonpartisan consensus on the IMF bailout and its accompanying debt restructuring program, adding that it was too late. let the country waste its economy.
Read his post below;
Speaking to the press after she joined some of the pensioners picketing at the Ministry of Finance, she said: “I find this wicked; I find it disrespectful; I find it unlawful; I find it totally wrong. Period. Because you don’t solve your problems by sacrificing your age. That’s the last thing you should do especially when we don’t have any services that are specially geared at the comfort and the relief of the aged.”
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Sophia Akuffo said the NPP management was very tactless when it came to including the elderly in the debt swap plan.
She said that while she will not be affected by the government’s DDEP, she finds it wrong that the government is sacrificing the interests of pensioners – who have sacrificed for Ghana, just to government can deal with government welfare problems. economy.
