Ghanaian economist, Professor Stephen Adei, has charged President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta to apologise to Ghanaians over the economic quagmire they have slumped the country into.
He said that it is bad for leaders in Ghana to refuse to take responsibility for their mistakes and failures. Prof. Adei has called on the President to apologise to the people of Ghana for the “hardship” he has “inflicted on them.”
“We have a problem with governance in this country,” the economist said. “People in government, whether the National Democratic Congress (NDC) or the New Patriotic Party (NPP), do not admit fault. I think it is a bad practice,” he said as quoted by asaasenews.com.
“I haven’t heard an explicit statement from the President or Minister of Finance Ken Ofori-Atta that ‘we are sorry for what has happened to Ghana’, even whether things went beyond our capacity, whether it was Ukraine-Russia war, COVID-19 pandemic.”
“I would have expected the government to say, Things are hard in Ghana; we have tried to steady the boat, but we want to apologise for the infliction, not by us but even by some economic circumstances,” he added.
He also warned that no matter who wins the 2024 election, the country will be in for some rough times. “The next three years, whether it’s Mahama or any of the NPP candidates, things will be extremely difficult for Ghanaians, and it requires mobilising Ghanaians to accept certain realities,” Adei said.
