The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga Central, Isaac Adongo has linked Ghana’s current economic crisis to reckless spending.
He said the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) must be responsible for everything that happens to the economy.
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Speaking on Accra-based Citi TV, Adongo said the unreasonable spending of the Akufo-Addo government is why Ghanaians are currently suffering.
“The levels of expenditure that we incurred were so huge that they were not informed by the problem that we were addressing.”
He further alleges that the government has nearly quadrupled its spending in the past three years, on behalf of COVID-19 relief services, so he is surprised that the government is now wandering funds to implement its Agenda 111.
“How on earth did we spend GH¢40 billion in one year and almost GH¢90 billion in two years, and now we are heading toward over GH¢140 billion expenditure, and we are still struggling to build Agenda 111?” he asked.
Mr. Adongo also lamented that most of the interventions the government says it has taken during the pandemic to protect the people of Ghana only expose the extent of the government’s recklessness without the need for record keeping. finance.
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“We were all over the streets throwing food. We should have had proper records of who deserves food and have delivered the food in a humane and hygienic manner to the people, and it would have been clear that we didn’t need all that money that we claimed we used to deliver food.”
He also accused the government of throwing money at his appointees in the name of protecting the people of Ghana during the pandemic.
