The Deputy Ranking Member on the Finance Committee of Parliament, Isaac Adongo says the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) assessment of Ghana’s economy failed to reflect the country’s real fiscal situation.
Isaac Adongo feels the IMF got it wrong when it attributed Ghana’s economic woes to COVID-19 and the Russia-Ukraine war because to him, the economy was already in tatters before the two situations.
Isaac Adongo, the Bolga Central Member of Parliament also accused the Akufo-Addo government of conniving with the IMF to paint a gloomy picture of the economy.
He said the New Patriotic Party (NPP) should not be forgiven for its comments made against the National Democratic Congress (NDC) for seeking an IMF bailout in the past.
“It is dishonesty for people who have profited from propaganda; people who have come to power on the back of the deception of the Ghanaian people that going to IMF defines incompetence, to now be turning around to say that we should not have that debate. Didn’t Dr. Bawumia describe John Mahama with unprintable words for taking Ghana to the IMF?”
“I want to say that the NPP should bow its head in shame for bringing us here. They want to now use PR and connive with the IMF to double speak. The truth is that, they have mismanaged the economy because the IMF has a dossier from 2019 that the country was heading in the wrong direction”, he stressed.
Story by: Teacher Kojo / Ahotoronline.com
