President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo‘s handling of the economy, according to the ranking member of the Parliamentary Finance Committee, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, has inspired him to desire to write a book about the president called “How not to run an Economy.”
The politician Ajumako Enyan Essiam claims that President Akufo-Addo has cemented his legacy as the first person to manage the economy in a negative manner since Ghana gained independence in 1957.
He stated that had his plea for IMF support been heeded sooner, Ghana might have been in a better economic position. He listed wasteful spending and borrowing as some of the reasons the government has failed in its management of the economy.
“The kind of mismanagement faced by the Ghanaian today is unprecedented. What we are seeing from Nana Addo since he became president, I have to write a book about him -how not to run an economy because the mismanagement has been legendary and he has set all the negative records in managing an economy,” he explained.
Speaking with Kwesi Parker-Wilson on Kumasi-based Oyerepa FM’s Ghana Te Sen, the former Deputy Minister of Finance charged Ghanaians to rise up and speak against the bad policy choices of the government.
He added that the policies are scary and that it will take the country about 20 years for it to recover from the economic mess supervised by the current administration.
“The way Akufo- Addo is managing the economy, it will take us 20 years to repair it. We must all rise and speak up against the mismanagement. The government must admit that they will crash the country so they must live above politics and ask for help to solve the economic problems. NPP has shown clearly that they can’t solve the problem but rather have aggravated the problem,” he stressed.