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Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia has beaten former President John Dramani Mahama, accusing him of being misinformed about the true state of the Ghanaian economy.
Dr. Bawumia said the former president should be informed with the correct data on the state of the country’s economy before making contrary statements that embarrass him.
Speaking in a media interaction after a COVID-19 response team meeting on Monday, the Vice President said that John Mahama’s claims that the economy is in disarray due to the COVID-19 outbreak should not be taken into account. It counts because it is not true.
“My humble advice to former President John Mahama is [that he should] take a look at the data, this is not green paper data. Take a look at the data before speaking, otherwise you will end up embarrassing yourself. When it comes to the data, it has been very clear; in agricultural growth, we have had a better performance; industry growth, we have performed better; inflation, we have performed better, in interest rate, we perform better; depreciation of the exchange rate, we have had a better performance. That is the information.
The vice president indicated that despite the large number of victims of the coronavirus pandemic in the country’s economy, the government’s programs and policy plans are still in progress.
He said legal payments were still being made while highway contracts are still ongoing.
John Mahama, in a Facebook interaction session last week, said the economy so publicized by the new ruling patriotic party has failed the test of time, as it is currently in ruins a month after the Coronavirus outbreak.
According to him, the economy is currently in intensive care after the devastating impact of COVID-19.
The former president, answering a question from a viewer about how he intends to revive the economy should he be elected as president in the 2020 general election, said the economy is struggling because it was based on propaganda.
“Reflecting on this question, this is one of the topics that we have talked about continuously, that it is always necessary that when building an economy it has enough buffers and creates a fiscal space to face a shock or adversity. , you can easily get over it. ”
“Unfortunately, this government has used a lot of propaganda saying that the economy has been the best we have had since independence. Unfortunately, only a month of coronavirus the economy is in the ICU. If we didn’t go to the IMF for the billion dollar fast line of credit, it is possible that in the next month wages would probably not have been paid, so our economy is in fans and it is necessary to think about rescuing it from the UCI “, Mahama said.
Mahama’s comment has already elicited a response from Information Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah Who emphasized that the economy is resilient and can afford the numerous interventions and programs that the government is implementing amid the COVID-19 outbreak in Ghana.
— citinewsroom
