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Collapsed banks: You should have applied “common sense” – Mahama to gov’t

Starrfm.com.gh By Starrfm.com.gh Published August 19, 2020
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Former President John Mahama says government should have applied “common sense” in handling the financial sector cleanup.

According to him, the corresponding unemployed occasioned by the exercise is unprecedented in the 4th republic.

“They’ve closed financial institutions. It’s not that the financial institutions didn’t have problems when we were in government, we knew there was a problem but we realised that the problem was a very complicated one and, so, we needed time to resolve it and make sure you don’t throw the baby away with the bathwater,” Mr. Mahama said while speaking to traditional and religious leaders in the Ketu North constituency as part of his campaign in the Volta region.

“We needed GHS9 billion to bail out the financial institutions that they closed down. Instead of investing GHS9 billion and it’s not money they would have been throwing away because you would have injected GHS9 billion, taken equity in those financial institutions and as they become liquid again, you give them back the equity and take your money back, simple!

“That’s why I said government is common sense. And yet you go and collapse all these financial institutions and now you owe GHS22 billion when you could have used GHS9 billion to solve the problem. You create the problem and now you owe GHS22 billion and you assure the people of their money and today they say ‘pay our money and that is another story,’” he stressed.

He also accused the Akufo-Addo government of deliberately refusing to pay contractors.

“More people have lost their jobs under this government than under any government in the fourth republic. All those working for microfinance institutions, banks, savings and loans companies that have been closed today, they are all sitting at home. Some have started driving taxis some are riding okada some are roasting sausages and ‘chichinga’ and others have died and that’s the microfinance institutions alone.

“If you take the construction companies that were given legitimate contracts by government and this government came and said ‘suspend them all, all of you stop work’ and as at now, work that was done by contractors in 2016 up to now, they’ve not been paid for it and it’s causing financial loss to the state because if you don’t pay their certificate, there is something called delayed interest payment and so all those certificates government has refused to pay are accumulating delayed payment interest. And so, somebody’s certificate that was GHS20 million that you should have paid, today, you owe him GHS50 million and we could have used the interest to execute another project. So, there is a lot that is wrong with this administration and that is why come December 7 2020, we must change them and let them go back and sit at home so that the more competent government can come.”

 

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