Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Abalakwa, is puzzled as to why the government hasn’t explained to the people of Ghana why their promise that the country will receive an IMF bailout by the end of March hasn’t come to pass.
Abalakwa said that the government should apologise to the people of Ghana for the empty promises it made. The politician made the declaration on his personal twitter page. He said that experts and critics had told government officials that the March deadline was impossible to meet, but they didn’t listen.
He has also proposed that parliament change its rules to make it such that a member of the opposition would be in charge of the Committee on Government Assurances and to impose severe punishments for major government lies.
Okudzeto Abalakwa said, “What should happen when a President and his top officials assure Parliament and the entire nation on multiple occasions that Ghana will secure an IMF bailout deal by March this year? Should the citizenry, like their government functionaries pretend that March didn’t end five days ago?“
Don’t Ghanaians deserve an apology and an explanation at the very least? Is that the superior competence the Akufo-Addo/ Bawumia/Ofori-Atta government proclaim?
Why did so many experts, civil society and the opposition foresee that a March deal was ridiculously impossible, and yet President Akufo-Addo kept issuing firmer assurances including when he delivered his Message on the State of the Nation in Parliament.
“Moving forward, there’s an urgent need to amend Parliament’s Standing Orders (Order 174) to expressly make an opposition MP the Chair of the Committee on Government Assurances and to provide for strict consequences for grand governmental deception. Leadership must respect the Ghanaian people. Ghana First” he added.
