Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo’s government has been criticised by lawyer Martin Kpebu for not admitting that they have failed to run Ghana’s economy.
He said the leaders of the New Patriotic Party are shifting blame onto others for the country’s economic woes after promising to fix things in 18 months.
During a panel discussion broadcast on TV3 on Saturday, he said, “We were bench borrow, we were doping the cedi, we borrow from the international capital market to come and shore up the cedi. When they shut us out of the international financial market last year, then boom the cedi fell.”
“What is wrong if you admit that your claim that you had the men is not false, that you don’t have the men, you men are not up to scratch and that is how come you led us into a ditch. We have the men, we have the men, the Vice President of the United States Kamala Harris, is now bringing you a resident US economist to come and teach you proper economics.”
Mr. Kpebu also said that it is not true when the government says that the economy was doing well before the COVID-19 pandemic. “When you said you could turn this economy around in 18 months by the time Covid came you had done about 40 months. You said you would do magic, your magic failed.”
