President Nana Akufo-Addo has said Mr. Ken Ofori-Atta, Ghana’s Finance Minister has been an excellent handler of the Ghanaian economy, stressing that he sees no reason to sack him as being demanded by his critics.
President Akufo-Addo spoke on OTEC FM in the Ashanti Region on the first day of his four-day official working tour of that part of the country, Mr. Akufo-Addo disregards the criticisms that his cousin the Finance Minister is cause for Ghana’s return to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for help after he mismanaged the economy to the fullest.
President said he takes full responsibility for the cause of Ghana’s return to the IMF since he took the decision as the head of state.
He argued that the same Ofori-Atta was able to manage an IMF-programmed economy that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) inherited in 2017 to become one of the fastest-growing economies in the world with an average annual growth rate of 7%.
The president, thus, wondered, how he could cut ties with Mr. Ofori-Atta as finance minister.
The president said he has a lot of difficulties understanding the clamor for Mr. Ofori-Atta’s exit, since, he noted, even the IMF confirmed that the causes of the current economic situation in Ghana are global in nature rather than a result of internal mismanagement.
“It is very easy for people to say we went back to the IMF due to mismanagement of the economy. I do not accept that criticism because the reasons why we got into the situation we find ourselves has very little to do with us. In fact, the IMF confirmed this.”
Source: Apexnewsgh.com/ Ghana
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