The attacks from NPP stalwart, Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, to Sophia Akuffo, appears to be a marble thrown at the elephant.
The former Chief Justice hitting back at Mr. Otchere-Otchere for comments he made for her participation in the protest at the Finance Ministry said people like him are irrelevant to her life.
For taking part in a picket at the Finance Ministry to demand exemption from government’s Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP), the NPP loyalist had chastised the former head of Ghana’s Judiciary for being “bigger than that.”
But in a response through the media Tuesday, February 14, 2023 at same venue, Madam Akuffo asked “is he a member of the government? He doesn’t decide for me what I need to do and what I do not need to do. It is as simple as that. I don’t have time for things like that. People like that are not important to me or to my life. He is a disturbance.”
The former Chief Justice had raised concerns over the debt restructuring which includes bonds of individuals who have sacrificed for the nation for decades and are now on retirement. Her resolve, just like many others who stormed the ministry, was to secure exclusion from the DDEP.
“These are all people who have worked, they have worked very hard, they could have left the country when others were going but they stayed, they worked for the nation.
“We have had our ups and downs. A lot of us were from generations where we were encouraged to save for tomorrow and all that. We have been through times where all your savings become nonsense because of some government policies, then over the years, bit by bit, people have become more confident in the economy and investments.
“Quite a number of people here today, when they retired last two years they have put everything into government bonds, it is a contract and now all of a sudden, you virtually want to, at gunpoint, force them to agree with you that the repayment of the yield of their investment should be as you dictate it. Why?” she asked.
Source: Onuaonline.com|Ghana
