John Dramani Mahama wants Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia removed as the Chairman of the Economic Management Team with an immediate effect.
He is calling for a ‘fresh brain’ to occupy the opposition to save the country from its current economic challenges.
To him, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia's self-praise as the ‘messiah’ of Ghana’s economy was a scam.
“The current head of the Economic Management Team [Dr. Bawumia] has clearly fallen from his ivory tower as a self-styled economic messiah to a poster boy for economic mismanagement, and his leadership of the Economic Management team is no longer tenable,” Mahama said at his ‘Ghana at a crossroads’ lecture in Accra on Monday.
He added that the entire membership of the economic management team must be revised.
“The economic management team has failed and must be reconstituted immediately with fresh ideas and perspectives having supervised the worst public debt build-up, worst budget deficit, worst debt to GDP ratio, worst credit rating downgrade, worst-performing currency in the world, worst crisis of confidence in the economy,” The 2020 flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) noted.
Source: King Edward Ambrose Washman Addo/peacefmonline.com/ghana
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The former President, Mahama, must be very desperate to find anything factual against Vice President Bawumia. He has a habit of using wishful thinking and insinuations from his own diabolic imagination to persecute the vice President. This will not work; Ghanaians are discerning and will not fall prey to such baseless propaganda.
Ex Prez JDM should stop this talk about economic failure by Bawumia bcoz he never performed any better and hence his defeat at the last two polls. The truth is that Ghana's economy has never been and will never be strong if we do not stop the ***barred word*** called importation. We import all kinds of goods into this country and put so much pressure on our forex reserves leaving us with nothing to back our Cedi. Until our exports are able to balance the imports evenly, we will just be going round in circles chasing nothing and accusing one another of incompetence just to win political power and then come and repeat the same ***barred word*** of importation, importation, importation. Ghana needs to up its production and ban importation of some goods outright in order to balance its' books. Until this is done, we just have to forget about a strong economy.
Mr Mahama, listen, we know you and Dr Bawumia. We can do comparison easily but will wait until 2024. It is too early to rush and draw conclusions regarding Dr Bawumia.
The Vice President Dr. Bawumia and his economic team have failed Ghanaians, they have nothing to offer, to lift the socio-economic image of the country. All the external instituitions such as the IMF, WB, EU, American Donors have voiced out about the current economic mismanagment by the so called "the economic management team" led by Dr. Bawumia.Ghanas economic situation is a stand still. Ghana is not the only country been affected by the out break of the pandemic, covid 19 and the ongoing conflict war between Russia and Ukraine. So the political leadership of the Akufo-Addo and Bawumia should stop the blame game and shiffting of goal polls. Blaming Ghanas economic difficulties with the pandemic and the war in Ukraine. So what is the next assignment for the economic team: What work are they doing for the country. NOTHING but DIGITALISATION!!!! Since the team has nothing to offer they have deliberately engaged themselves with digitalisations and computarisation works which does not remove the poverty and hardships which Ghanaians are battling with. This economic team are just day dream thinkers and not pragmatic enough to tackle the daily economic difficulties in that country. So they are been stuck in the mud and as at now they have not work out alternative modalities to remove Ghana from the economic crises. What next for Ghanas socio- economic developement ???
A very weak way of attacking Bawumia, knowing very well that attacking Akufo Addo will amount to no political gain to him. This is clear empty politics. Bawumia did a lecture full of facts and figures with data. If you want to debate him, come with similar, andstop this sweeping empty talk. I trust Bawumia to either respond appropriately or ignore your empty talk like a plague
Bawumia is looking for you to debate economics. Stop this type of politics it did not win the seat in 2016 and 2020. At your level talk about bread and butter issues. Bawumia Will defeat you 2024! 🙏🏿