The constituency first Vice Chairman of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), in Dome-Kwabenya, Paul Opoku, has justified what the party describes as poor management of the economy by the NDC.
According to him, even plantain was imported from Cote D’Ivoire under the NDC.
He spoke on Movement In The Morning Show where he told Kwaku Dawuro that “this is the kind of economy we inherited but we have been able to turn things around- under the tenure of the NDC, the government was importing plantain from Cote D’Ivoire. The narrative is different now. There was a lot that the government was able to do to ensure that lives weren’t lost during the peak of the COVID-19 pandemic. Providing face masks for students for free among other freebies”.
“But definitely someone must pay for this and hence the reason Government decided to introduce the E-levy to ensure that every Ghanaian pays little for it- expecting that the minority in Parliament would have agreed to this so that we move forward as a country and will be able to generate funds internally without borrowing. But, they fiercely opposed and were happy that the Government couldn’t even raise its intended revenue; forgetting that if the government isn’t able to do so, then the only option will have to borrow”, he stressed.
“”We should reject the NDC’s propaganda and embrace whatever the Government is doing- put our shoulders to the wheel and move forward”, he urged Ghanaians.