The Greater Accra regional director of elections and research for the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP), Ebenezer Doku, has said that the borrowing of funds by the current government is what has kept the country moving in these times of global crisis.
This comes on the back of allegations that the government is borrowing for what it cannot account for.
Speaking on Movement in the morning show on Wontumi Radio/Movement TV, he told Kwaku Dawuro that “We have used what we borrowed to keep the country going. Imagine how we would have lived in this country without electricity. Despite the huge debt during the erstwhile Mahama’s administration, we were still queuing to buy Liquefied Petroleum Gas- have we forgotten so soon? Many children of school going age who couldn’t have access to secondary school now do- following the expansion of schools, we had to recruit about eight thousand (8,000) more teachers, who are all being paid”.
“Government is paying $1Billion every year for the power badges the NDC introduced of which we don’t even use. Convert a million dollar to cedis every year and multiple it by five. You know the NDC signed the contract for the Pokuase interchange, but the fund was received during our tenure, and it has been added to our debt- likewise the EUROJET project that was signed during President Kufuor’s era but left power and therefore was hoping that the NDC will do so when it took over. However, they never did but squandered the money”.
In furtherance he said that these are the differences between the NPP and the NDC. Even in the midst of difficulties, there’s constant electricity and it’s that same funds.
“We haven’t said things are better, the economic turbulence is happening everywhere. One thing we should also look at is the unwarranted increase of prices on market which doesn’t reflect the price on the international market. You will find an importer consistently increasing the price of goods and services in this country and it’s something we should look at”, he concluded.