Akuffo-Addo NPP's Management Of Ghana's Economy is Disastrous …NDC Fires Salvo
The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has slammed President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo led New Patriotic Party (NPP) government for mismanagement of the country’s economy which outcomes have worsened the living standards of Ghanaians.
Freeman Koryekpor Awlesu Greater 
Addressing a press conference on Wednesday, January 5 2022 in Accra, the National Communications Officer of the NDC, Mr. Sammy Gyamfi accused President Akufo-Addo and the ruling NPP government of mismanaging the Ghanaian economy and making the lives of the citizenry hard.
According to the young outspoken NDC firebrand, the economic hardships Ghanaians from all walks of life are experiencing are the direct effects of Mr. Akufo-Addo and his mismanagement of the economy.
He warned the Akufo-Addo led NPP government to stop their habit of blaming the spread of the coronavirus for a poorly run economy.
He stressed that the mismanagement and reckless spending of the NPP government are all to blame for the country’s present economic woes.
Contrary to assertions by the government, the legal luminary indicated that the present economic situation of the country cannot be blamed on the Covid-19 pandemic.
Mr. Gyamfi was addressing a press conference in Accra to react to the government’s decision to reverse benchmark discounts on selected imported products.
President Akufo-Addo during his Christmas Message to the nation asserted that the pandemic has affected every sector of the global economy and national life, visiting its ravages on virtually everything.
However, Mr. Gyamfi stated says the same Covid-19 Pandemic affected regional neighbors Togo, Benin, Nigeria, and Ivory Coast but whose economies are doing far better than Ghana’s economy.
“It is worthy to note that, several countries in the sub-region such as Togo, Benin, Nigeria, Ivory Coast, among others, have a better budget deficit, debt to GDP ratio and other economic indices than Ghana despite being hit by the COVID pandemic.
"None of these countries has slapped their citizenry with the kind of draconian revenue measures the Ghanaian people are witnessing at the hands of the insensitive Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government. Therefore, COVID-19 can neither be a reasonable justification for the reversal of benchmark discounts on imported products nor the imposition of unprecedented hardships and misery on Ghanaians by this government," the NDC top shot stated.
Mr. Gyamfi insisted that the “catastrophic decision” by the government to remove the benchmark discounts on imported products “has been occasioned by the self-inflicted economic malice we find ourselves with our economy in tatters and government simply unable to find money to do anything.”
He accused the government of economic mismanagement and reckless election drive for the past five years.
“The Akufo-Addo, Bawumia NPP government has decided to punish the already burdened Ghanaian people with more hardship for their own recklessness and economic mismanagement. This is why all manner of crippling taxes and killer revenue measures such as the reversal of benchmark value discounts are being imposed on suffering Ghanaians to shore up the government’s revenue just to create an artificial picture of a sound economy in order to convince the investor community on more and more borrowing.
"So don’t be deceived that this policy has been introduced because the government wants to support AGI and local manufacturers, it is not true. The reason for the introduction of this draconian policy is revenue and nothing else. Government is broke," he warned the NPP.
