President of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe, is asking the Vice President to follow the steps of the Finance Minister, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam, and also apologise to Ghanaians.
He says Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia should own up and apologise and tell Ghanaians how he is going to fix the economic mess.
The founder of IMANI Centre for Policy and Education wants the flag bearer of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) to provide real solutions to the challenges Ghana is going through at the moment.
His comments follow an apology from the Finance Minister to Ghanaians over the hardship his government has put the citizenry through due to its unpopular policy.
Dr Mohammed Amin Adam, addressing a townhall meeting in Accra Tuesday, August 6, 2024, said government needed the domestic debt exchange programme to restructure its debts to secure the IMF facility.
He therefore asked Ghanaians to forgive the government for the harm it has caused them.
“We needed to restructure our debts because it was one of the requirements by the IMF. We started with the domestic debt exchange programme, the domestic exchange programme was very successful, achieving 95 per cent participation. On this note, I would like to appeal to the people of this country to forgive us,” the Minister stated.
In his response on Facebook Wednesday, August 07, 2024, Franklin said the Vice President should replicate and let Ghanaians know what he wants to do.
“Thank you, Finance Minister. We really should have had you much earlier. When is Dr. Bawumia going to own up and do the same and then provide real believable solutions and ideas that will never ever get us into these rudderless economic storms again?
“Remember, the economy is what we know him for, not promising mobile phones on credit for jobless people.People need to have jobs and dignified income first so they can buy their own mobile phones. People do not need the state to babysit and feed them.
“Many are thinking of survival before growth. Well, if he acknowledges these things, l might put in a word for him. It is possible for him to do these,” he stated.
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