Bernard Allotey Jacobs, a former Central Regional Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), has respinded to a recent report by the Economic Intelligence Unit that described Ghana’s economy as being in a state of distress.
Speaking on a panel discussion on Peace FM’s Kokrokoo on Wednesday, May 3, 2023, Allotey Jacobs acknowledged that while the economy was not in the best condition, Ghanaians are still able to eat three times daily and workers are also consistently receiving salaries, unlike in neighboring country Nigeria.
“I will agree with the EIU that, yes indeed the economy is not the best, but the miracle in our worst economy is about workers always receiving their salary as compared to Nigeria, the miracle in this worst economy is that everybody eats three times a day,” he said.
He maintained that nobody in the country can dispute the fact that despite the economic woes, the person goes to bed on an empty stomach.
“Nobody in this country will tell me including Thompson that he doesn’t eat.”
The former NDC regional chairman further cautioned the government that more needed to be done to address the underlying issues that are causing economic distress in the country.
Meanwhile, former President, John Dramani Mahama has vowed to fix the Free SHS policy which has been a big problem after its implementation by the President Nana Addo led NPP government.
Under the NPP-led administration, Mahama pledged to fix the National Health Insurance Scheme and the problematic Free SHS policy.
“Free SHS is not working properly, the benefit it is supposed to give the parents, they are not getting. I can tell you today that the money we are spending on our children to go to school is far more than when we used to pay school fees.
“We are going to repair the free SHS and make it better and create the situation when where school reopens, all the children will go together and when they vacate they all come home together,” he stated.
