The Chief Executive Officer of Public Sector Reforms, Thomas Kusi Boafo, has observed that the main reason former President John Dramani Mahama has been criticizing the Akufo-Addo led administration is because he wants to announce his presence.
“I don’t fault Mahama at all, he’s trying everything possible to announce his presence. If COVID-19 hadn’t destroyed economies, the World Health Organization (WHO) wouldn’t have declared it as a pandemic. Even the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and the World Bank wouldn’t have extended their support to countries if there was no economic turbulence- New Zealand never received any support because they were hard hit by the pandemic”, he told Kwaku Dawuro on Movement In The Morning Show.
According to him, if there was no COVID-19, then why did Mahama and his family go for the jab? Asking if one would go to the hospital when he/she is not sick? adding that economies across the globe are suffering terribly.
“During his tenure, he went to the IMF simply because of mismanagement. When the NPP lost elections in 2008 and late Atta Mills took over as President, their first meeting with the IMF, Duffuor the then finance minister’s assessment noted that the economy had recovered very well and Ghana’s debt to GDP has performed very well because of good policies and programs which were implemented including the discovery of oil in commercial quantities and that was the description he gave about Kufuor’s government to the IMF. So they basically went to the IMF with former President’s Kufuor’s policies”, he said.
Adding that the free SHS policy which the former President Mahama had stated that it wasn’t experimental is the same policy that made him who he is today and has produced several leaders in the country.
“The free SHS Policy in the northern region is what has produced a speaker of Parliament, high court Judges and including himself who was a Vice President and later a President. Did he call that experimental or he doesn’t understand what an experiment is? Most of the policies implemented have had their experiment done already because before Nana Addo introduced the free SHS policy, was it not already existing in the three northern regions? So why is he saying this one wasn’t experimental, meaning it was thought through. Is he trying to say Kwame Nkrumah was brainless?”, he fumed angrily.