Tamale Central MP Ibrahim Murtala Muhammad has lambasted the administration for persistently attributing Ghana’s difficulties to the COVID-19 outbreak.
The MP questioned why Ghana’s neighbors are not experiencing the same suffering since they were all affected by the COVID-19 outbreak in an interview with TV3 that GhanaWeb was watching.
He continued by saying that the only reason Ghana is in worse shape is because the current administration mismanaged all the funding the nation received as a consequence of the COVID-19 outbreak.
“Why is it that our neighbouring countries are not suffering the way we are suffering? Why is Togo not suffering the way we are suffering? Why is it that Burkina Faso is not suffering the way we are suffering?
“COVID hit all of us; was Ghana the only country that was hit by COVID? Ghana was not the only country that was hit by COVID. As a matter of fact, all those countries (our neighbours) none of them went to the IMF to borrow $3 billion in the name of COVID. None of them.
“As a matter of fact, Burkina Faso went for $20 million. None of our neighbours went to the World Bank to borrow about $906 million… none of them went to their central bank to request (GHS) 10 billion; they ended up borrowing (GHS) 20 billion,” he said.
He went on to say that, despite the limited resources available to combat the COVID-19 pandemic, Ghana’s neighbours did a better job of mitigating the pandemic’s impact.
Also, the MP said that if the government wants Ghanaians to support its policies to get the country out of the current economic mess, it should lead by example by drastically reducing its expenditure.