Cassiel Ato Forson, Member of Parliament for Ajumako Enyan Essiam Constituency in the Central Region has alleged that government went on a borrowing spree in the lead-up to the 2020 polls.
Ato Forson, who is the Ranking Member on Parliament’s Finance Committee said a total of GH¢67 billion was borrowed, an amount which he says the Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo-led government splurged on campaigning.
He said the amount was also shared among members of the governing New Patriotic Party, NPP, like 'kelewele' – a local snack made of fried chopped plantain with pepper usually accompanied with groundnuts.
“Because of the elections, they decided to borrow GH¢67 billion, and shared the money to their party supporters. They shared Ghana’s money like kelewele,” Ato Forson claimed in an interview with pro-National Democratic Congress channel, Woezor TV.
The NPP government has serially been accused of overborrowing and reckless spending leading Ghana into financial difficulties.
The government insists that the twin effects of the COVID-19 aftermath and the Russia-Ukraine war are to blame for the headwinds and that measures are being put in place to rectify the challenge.
Ghana is hoping for an International Monetary Fund programme to help stabilize the economy amid fears that it could collapse sooner or later.
President Akufo-Addo in late October delivered an address on the economy, admitting that Ghana was in a crisis, whiles outlining measures being undertaken to reverse the tide and put the economy on a path of growth and prosperity.
Source: Ghanaweb.com
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Do you believe this kind of political lying is going to win NDC power in the 2024 elections? I beg to differ, for Ghanaians are more discerning and informed than the NDC underrates them. The 2024 elections are going to send a strong signal that if the NDC does not change its attitude of solely depending on vile propaganda against political opponents to gain votes, the party is going to be extinct forever. In contemporary multiparty politics, campaigning on policies to turn things around and improve the lives of the electorate is the key. It's as archaic as Hitler's Goebel erra to think that repeating and propagating lies will help you score easy political points.
Reminding us of what they did in 2012. Since then, the economy has never properly recovered.
Eii has Ato Forson lowered himself to A Propagandist level, oh , he is above these kinds of talks, his wife must start guiding him from these kinds of DISGRACE