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Former President John Dramani Mahama has called on the Akufo-Addo government to apologise to Ghanaians for making a u-turn on its position on the state contracting loans to finance projects.
In opposition, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) criticised the Mahama administration for taking loans to develop the country and promised to do things differently when elected.
But that promise has not been kept by the NPP. In its first 18 months, the Akufo-Addo government borrowed nearly eight billion dollars. That is approximately 40 billion Ghana Cedis.
And President Akufo-Addo last week said that his government would borrow to finance its programmes, adding that even the USA borrows.
Addressing delegates of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) at Tantra Hills, Accra in the Trobu constituency on Monday, Mr Mahama pointed out that the government has made a uturn on the issue of loans and therefore called on it to apologise for its earlier attack on the NDC.
“We have all your quotations on loans”, he added.
Mr Mahama said when the NDC was in government and borrowed to invest in assets such as hospitals, roads, bridges, interchanges, ports expansion, electricity and water, among many others, the NPP consistently criticised the government.
“So today if you have turned around and you have seen that you can borrow and invest in assets, then the first thing you do is to apologise and say sorry to Ghanaians. But when u behave as if we don’t know what you said, and say even the US is borrowing. And so what?" he quizzed.
He said after borrowing almost GHC 40 billion, the NPP cannot tell Ghanaians what it has used the money.
Mr Mahama also rejected the claim by the NPP government that, it is using some of the borrowed money to service the debt behind left by the NDC government. He said the NDC in power also paid some of the loans left behind by the NPP administration, citing the Eurobond as an example.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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ONE of the SOCIAL INTERVENTION from J MAHAMA IS YE BEDI BE KEKE (yebe di bi keke) no sense in this mantra, it means he came to chop GHANA money for nothing. All the money NANA is borrowing is to improve GHANA NOT TO CHOP CHOP LIKE YOU. T H I E F.
WHEN YOU SPENT ALL GHANAIANS MONEY YOURSELF, FOR EIGHT GOOD SOILED YEARS, I WANT NANA TO USE ONLY TWO YEARS TO CHANGE GHANA YES, IT IS IMPOSSIBLE TH I E F. UPON CHOPPING ALL GHANA'S MONEY AND TAKEN GHANA TO IMF, FOR THE IMF TO DECIDE FOR GHANAIANS, YOU WANT GHANAIANS TO BRING YOU BACK AGAIN TO CHOP MORE OF OUR MONEY YES, IT WILL NOT WORK.NO SENSI-BLE PERSON WILL VOTE FOR YOU ONLY UN WISE PEOPLE WILL FOLLOW YOU. NEVER THINK EVER THAT YOU WILL COME TO POWER AGAIN. NEVER
Akufo Addo is out of his mi nd
you said all that was left was the bone; then you sucked the marrow from the bone. So what do you expect Akufo-Addo to do? Bring cak the USD750 million judgment debt payout along with all your bus branding, gyeeda whatever chop chop andf he will perform miracles
Stop this your stupiiiiiiiiid comment. Go back and listen to what Akuffo Addo said during his campaign
you need more medical attention than him
WHY THIS TH-EI-F SOO DESPERATE LIKE THAT, YOU WANT NANA TO EXPLAINED WHAT TO WHO. ***barred word*** MAN LIKE YOU. WHO LEAVES GHANA FOR YOU AGAIN, FOR YOU TO INVITE EXTRA TH-EI-VES TO USED OUR FOR ASOFOTON, NKONFEM GONE TO BUKINA FASO. SUUBA, ETC, SHOW GHANAIAN'S ONE SOCIAL INTERVENTIONS YOU INTRODUCED TO GHANAIAN'S DURING YOUR TENURE, UPON ALL THESE BIG BIG MONEY YOU BORROWED AND TAKEN GHANA TO IMF DURING YOUR TENURE, YOU STILL WANT GHNAIANS TO VOTE FOR YOU. ALSO IN YOUR GOVERNANCE YOU COULD'NT PAY FOR CONTINUES MONEY, TO REVIVED GHANA ELECTRICITY SHORTAGE, YOU CAN GO TO HELL AND KEEP ON TELL LIES AND SHOUTING HERE AND THERE, NOBODY WILL VOTE FOR YOU TODAY OR TOMMORROW. AS GHANAIANS STILL REMEMBERED YOUR BAD JOB FOR GHANA ON YOUR GOVERNANCE.
Hahahahah. NDC ab)n rough.
WE NEED TO BE REALISTIC. NANA ADDO MADE IT CLEAR THAT THERE IS A LOT OF MONEY IN THE COUNTRY AND THEREFORE NO NEED TO BORROW. IF TODAY HE HAS TURNED ROUND TO JUSTIFY BORROWING, THEN INDEED HE MUST APOLOGIZE. SOME OF US VOTED FOR HIM BECAUSE WE THOUGHT HE HAS A DIFFERENT WAY TO RUN THE ECONOMY WITHOUT BORROWING BUT TO JUSTIFY BORROWING MEANS HE DECEIVED US.
IS THAT WHAT THE DELEGATES WANT TO HEAR? COME ON MR MAHAMAH.TRY TO GET A MESSAGE.