Source: newsthemegh.com
Sammy Gyamfi, the National Communications Officer of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), has disputed the government New Patriotic Party’s (NPP) repeated assertion that the COVID-19 pandemic is to blame for the nation’s dire economic situation.
Mr. Gyamfi has questioned what the NPP would have blamed for the financial situation the county is in if COVID-19 hadn’t occurred.
“Quite often all you hear from the NPP and its elements is when issues about the mismanagement of the economy are raised… you hear them say the economy was doing well but for COVID,” he noted.
He urged the NPP to be courageous in acknowledging that the nation’s economy was in ruins even before the outbreak.
He claimed that prior to COVID, there were indications that the Ghanaian economy was experiencing difficulties, all as a result of financial minister Ken Ofori-poor Atta’s management.
“The NPP is quick to shift the blame on the mismanagement of the economy unto COVID when there were signs the economy was being run down before the advent of the COVID pandemic,” he asserted.
“In 2019, the cedi depreciated against the US dollar by 14 per cent and this was before COVID,” he buttressed.
“The World Bank’s Country Director, Mr Piere Laporte, said without mincing words that the country’s economy showed signs of challenges before the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic,” he cited, remarking that: “COVID-19 seems to have been NPP’s scapegoat.”
“The NPP is quick to shift the blame on the mismanagement of the economy unto COVID when there were signs the economy was being run down before the advent of the COVID pandemic,” he asserted.
“In 2019, the cedi depreciated against the US dollar by 14 per cent and this was before COVID,” he buttressed.
“The World Bank’s Country Director, Mr Piere Laporte, said without mincing words that the country’s economy showed signs of challenges before the emergence of the COVID-19 pandemic,” he cited, remarking that: “COVID-19 seems to have been NPP’s scapegoat.”