According to Sammy Gyamfi, the National Communications Officer for the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Dr. Ernest Addison, the governor of the Bank of Ghana, and Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta are both imprisoned.
He claims that Mr. Ofori-Atta and Dr. Addison will be held fully accountable by the law for “breaching the Bank of Ghana Act and Public Financial Management Act with such impunity” under the next NDC administration.
“When Bawumia was saying that I’ve worked at the Bank of Ghana before, the money is there, they were referring to a printing machine that they could resort to print money billions and waste the money,” he said on Accra-based Metro TV.
“The question everyone should be asking including the NPP people is that the 80 billion printed for your government in two years have you seen the effect of the 80 billion on employment, have you seen the effect of government settling its arrears to its contractors, school feeding caterers, food suppliers? Have you seen the effect of this 80 billion? Where is the money?” Sammy Gyamfi quizzed.
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He responded by calling BoG’s statement regarding bankruptcy claims made by his party “worthless and useless.”
The Central Bank’s governor and his two deputies have been given a 21-day deadline to resign voluntarily or face being removed for accruing losses of more than GHS 60 billion in 2022 by the Parliament’s Minority Caucus.
Relatively, earlier the NDC Minority threatened to march to the premises of the Bank of Ghana to drag Dr Addison and his deputies from office if they fail to resign within 21 days, due to what it described as the reckless management of the bank by the officials.
Responding to everything on Thursday’s edition on Metro TV Good Morning Ghana, Sammy Gyamfi said the bank refused to respond to the fundamental concerns raised by the NDC.
