The Bank of Ghana (BoG) has come under fire from Ernest Owusu Bempah, the NPP’s deputy director of communications, for its numerous problems.
He claimed that the controversy surrounding the central bank’s planned $250 million new headquarters is harming public opinion of the government.
On August 21, when addressing media in Accra, Mr. Owusu-Bempah said “The whole brouhaha with the Bank of Ghana is becoming a problem for the government and party in power and so if they have anything to explain, they should.”
“NPP as a political party we don’t condone wrongdoing, we don’t condone anything to do with alleged malfeasance or corruption.
“This particular issue is becoming an albatross around the neck of the government and the party in power. So they need to come out clean, the explanation that they are giving, we don’t get it so they should come out and explain better.
“The Governor of the Bank of Ghana needs to sit up and come clean so that the government will look good. This issue is becoming a danger for the political fortune in the 2024 elections. Financially, we are going through turbulence, but as a party, we have done a lot in managing the economy and then the next day you hear this scandal coming from the Bank of Ghana.
“As a spokesperson for the NPP, I want to tell the Bank of Ghana to come clean and let us know exactly what is going on. They cannot sit somewhere and be explaining things the way they want.
“There is an allegation of missing money and there is another allegation of building a $250 million headquarters, this is a serious thing. Bank of Ghana is a big financial economic institution of the state that runs the whole economic activities of this country.”
“So you cannot just come out and throw issues out there just like that and expect the ordinary Ghanaian to understand what is going on. So they need to come out clean and let the people of Ghana understand so that party communicators can go out there and explain the issues better,”he said.
The central bank has been questioned by the minority in parliament regarding the location of the central bank’s new headquarters.
The Minority is asking for details about the procedures involved in acquiring the land for the construction of the new headquarters building, among other things.
