The Onua Morning Show team have launched a campaign in support of the pensioners demonstrating their displeasure against their inclusion in the debt restructuring.
Pensioners who are part of the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP) are protesting to be exempted from the programme thereby launching a protest at the Finance Ministry.
The team, in showing solidarity for the senior citizens have declared their staunch support with hashtags, #iStandWithPensioners #ExemptOurPensioners in printed red and black t-shirts.
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The DDEP is a government of Ghana initiative instituted to restructure its debt to meet a conditionality for a bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Many stakeholders have resisted the programme including organised labour who threatened to lay down their tools should the government touch their funds.
The threats yielded a fruitful outcome when government assured them of exemption until some individual bondholders revealed that their funds are being touched clandestinely.
The pensioners picketing at the Ministry of Finance continues today, Monday, February 13, 2023.
This is the second time the Maakye team have launched a campaign in support a national agenda when it earlier asked the government to attack corruption and galamsey rather than gagging journalists.
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By Felix Anim-Appau|Onuaonline.com
