The Member of Parliament for Ajumako-Enyan-Esiam and the Ranking Member on Parliament’s Finance Committee, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson has given 7 reasons why Ghana is in an "economic mess"
In a Facebook post, he wrote:
Folks,
I know some of you might still be wondering how we got into this economic mess!
Here are a few reasons,
1. The NPP has the largest size of government in the history of Ghana! Find out how many ministers they’ve appointed from 2017. At one point, they had over 125 ministers!
2. This government has over 1,000 presidential staffers paid as article 71 officeholders at the jubilee House!
3. They’ve also appointed soo many special assistants to ministers with emoluments close to that of deputy ministers at the various MDA’s.
Take also into consideration:
4. The number of spokespersons at various MDA’s paid above the pay of Directors!
5. The number of CEO’s at various State-owned Enterprises (SOEs) and their pay packages! Many of these SOEs now employ 3 or 4 deputy CEOs with fat conditions of service!
6. The impact of the Over 50 new agencies with zero output, eg. CODA, NADA, MBDA, free SHS secretariat, 1D1F secretariat, Petroleum Hub Development Authority, Ghana cares Secretariat, etc
7. The unconscionable decision to send over 100 Databank staff to the Finance Ministry as special assistants and paid as customs commissioners on GRA’s payroll!
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Partly due to you dubious deals as a fmr. Deputy Finance Minister. Loo at the mess and corruption infested deal you make about the Trotro Empty vans you and NDC called ambulance you brought with huge sums of $. Now you have voice to talk. Ghana laws are weak, else you should be in Jail by now!
Hahahaaaa, also list the issues that culminated in Ghana going to the IMF when your party the NDC was in power and you as a deputy minister of finance. Who do you think you are fooling? if these so called politicians were to know what people say on seeing their faces on TV, they will hide, almost 90% of them will be running away from TV cameras when they appear. In opposition they look very intelligent, give them power and they act as if they have never sat in the 4 walls of a classroom. How can a whole former president tweet about agenda 111 projects promised in 2020 and that 4 years down the road not one have been completed for use. We are barely 1 month into 2023. Is 2020 to 2023 four years? I can't think far.