The Minority in Parliament has rejected assertions by Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia that the Mahama administration is partly to blame for the country’s return to the IMF.
Dr. Bawumia in his address on Thursday cited the banking sector clean-up, Energy Sector Debt as legacies of the Mahama administration that have returned the government to the Bretton Woods Institution barely three years after exiting a programme with the institution.
Addressing the media in parliament, minority Spokesperson on Finance Cassiel Ato Forson argued the terrible economic realities of today are solely the doing of the Nana Addo administration.
The former deputy finance minister asked the vice president who heads the economic management team to humbly accept his failures and apologise to Ghanaians.
“The Vice-President, Dr Mahmoud Bawumia must concentrate on his core duties as head of the economic team and allow the Minister of Information to perform his duties as prescribed by convention. From all indications, the Vice-President president has clearly lost focus and therefore making his office look irrelevant while demeaning the standards expected of a Vice-President.”
The Ranking member for the Mines and Energy Committee and former Power Minister John Jinapor further accused the Nana Addo administration of diverting over 24 billion cedis accrued to the ESLA instead of using it to pay the nine billion cedis debt.