Member of the National Communication team for the New Patriotic Party, Lady Vera Wiredu, has concluded that 85% of Ghanaians have come to understand and accept the Domestic Debt Exchange Program(DDEP).
Speaking in an interview with Kwaku Dawuro, on Movement In The Morning, on Movement TV/Wontumi radio, Lady Vera stated that Ghanaians have come to understand the intentions government has, to reduce the country’s debt by working with individual bonds through the Domestic Debt Exchange programme.
According to Lady Vera ”Government’s plea to Ghanaians is to withhold profit on individual bond holders for a year, to enable us get the necessary assistance from the IMF due to the current economic hardship, and once we get them to assist us, finances will start getting better and things would go back to normalcy. This is just it, but the NDCs decided to misinform the public which lead to the government deciding to omit some people and also make it voluntary for the rest of the people.
So it is never made mandatory by the government, but rather a plea, so as i speak to you this morning it has been concluded and 85% of Ghanaians have come to understand and accept it.”