Professor Ransford Edward Van Gyampo of the University of Ghana has slammed the Bank of Ghana governor for describing participants of the OccupyBoG demo as hooligans.
According to Professor Gyampo, if Ghanaians are able to survive the 2024 polls, things will change and Dr. Addison, will account for his stewardship wherever he would be.
In an open letter written to the BoG governor Thursday, October 5, 2023, Prof. Gyampo said management of the state is not going to remain same when power changes hands and that would be the time Dr. Addison will face reality for his leadership.
“Whether you resign or not, you would by all means, account one day, for your stewardship either in heaven or in hell or in prison or in your home. One thing is certain to me and must be clear in the minds of all, if we survive 2024, the conduct of governance, politics and the management of our economy wouldn’t be business as usual. Things would change to the glory of God, for the betterment of lives of Ghanaians, and to the shame of wicked and incompetent leadership,” he indicated in the open letter.
Prof. Gyampo’s comments come on the back of governor Addison’s response to the convenors of the OccupyBoG demo describing their protest as “completely unnecessary” and behaving as “hooligans” rather than acting according to prescribed channels demanded from them as Members of Parliament and a Minority.
The Minority was joined by the Arise Ghana group and other members of the public to protest the “mismanagement and incompetence” of governor Addison to resign with his two deputies after incurring a loss of GHC60.8 billion in the financial year 2022.
A negative equity of GHC55.1 billion was also incurred during the period in question.
In a response given through an interview with international business website, Central Banking, Dr. Addison described the protest as “completely unnecessary”, saying they had channels to channel their grievances rather than demonstrating as hooligans.
He says neither him nor his deputies would step down as being demanded by the group after saying the bank’s losses were due to the government’s domestic debt exchange programme and the high depreciation of the Cedi against the major trading currencies at the period in review.
“The Minority in parliament have many channels to channel their grievances in civilised societies, not through demonstrations in the streets as hooligans,” Addison added in reference to the #OccupyBoG protest.
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