A member of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Communications Team, Louisa Kwakye, has commended President John Dramani Mahama’s approach to economic recovery while criticizing the financial decisions of the previous New Patriotic Party (NPP) administration.
She questioned the NPP’s sudden payment of matured bonds after a prolonged period of economic hardship during an appearance on Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana monitored by MyNewsGH.
“It is very surprising that this morning, we are hearing that the NPP paid the haircuts people the monies they owed them. Where did the money come from? Why did they stop paying their maturing bonds in the first place?” she asked.
She recalled the struggles of pensioners who had to protest for their funds, describing it as an unprecedented failure in financial management.
“For once in this country, as a young person, I had never seen old people in wheelchairs and with walking sticks picketing at a ministry over their unpaid monies. Even a former Attorney General and Minister for Justice was part of it,” she said.
Louisa Kwakye highlighted the significant steps President Mahama has taken to streamline government spending, particularly the reduction in ministerial appointments.
“At a point, the NPP had around 125 ministers. Now, it is down to 60. Do you know what that does for the economy? It cuts down the expenditure of what these extra 65 people would have spent,” she explained.
She further criticized the NPP for sidelining key stakeholders in economic decision-making, stressing the importance of broad consultation in national development.
“If we are building the Ghana we all want, we must involve people who are well-versed in economic matters. The NPP has always maintained this posture of knowing it all and forcing everything down our throats, but that approach will not work,” she concluded.
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