The Minority Leader in Parliament, Dr Cassiel Ato Baah Forson, says despite the bad governance resulting in the economic mess we are witnessing today, there is hope because former President John Mahama, NDC’s 2024 flagbearer has a track record and the investment community will count on him to reset Ghana.
Speaking during the launch of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) campaign in Tamale, Dr Ato Forsom described the Nana Akufo Addo-Bawumia led administration, as incompetent and will go down in history as the worst.
“It has been 8 years of borrowing and bad governance, 8 years of corruption, lies and incompetence.” – he emphasized.
He noted that the high level of frustration among struggling businesses and the suffering masses reflect the high level of incompetence from the NPP administration, thereby creating doubts in them to vote come December 7, 2024.
Part of his speech read .. “ This Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government has been a monumental failure. It has been almost eight (8) years of:
• Lies, lies and more lies
• Impunity and lawlessness
• Recklessness and cluelessness
• No Job and Joblessness
• No hope and Hopelessness
• Hardships, misery and Ahokyer3
• Tax, Taxes and more Taxes
• Borrowing, more borrowing and over-borrowing
• Illegal printing of money and more illegal printing of money at the Bank of Ghana
• Wastage
• Non-performance
• Poor governance
• Massive uncontrolled corruption
• State capture
• Family and friends
• Arrogance of power
Making reference to the recent Ghana Statistical Service report, Dr Ato Forson, who is a former deputy Finance Minister noted with concern that about 11.5 million people , representing 33.3%, Ghanaians have been thrown into extreme poverty due to the bad policies of President Akufo-Addo and Vice President Alhaji Bawumia.
He added that 8.4 million Ghanaians representing 24.5% of went a day without food in 2023 while 2 million are facing acute food and nutrition insecurity, according to the World Bank.
Quoting further statistics, he said 35% of the youth are unemployed (the highest in the Fourth Republic) while 1.9 million are idle with no work, no training and no education, according to the Ghana Statistical Service
“50% of our doctors are now working abroad due to poor working conditions, says the Ghana Human Development report. This government borrowed and overborrowed and have made Ghana bankrupt. Even pensioners were made to suffer crude and painful haircuts. The Bank of Ghana is now bankrupt and policy insolvent, Ghana’s cocoa sector has collapsed. And almost all state-owned enterprises are recording huge losses and collapsing” he added.
He said with this poor scorecard of the Akufo-Addo/ Bawumia government, it has become very necessary for Ghanaians to help kick them out to save Ghana from further sinking
The campaign launch was attended by the Presidential Candidate of the party, Mr John Dramani Mahama, Vice – Presidential Candidate, Professor Jane Naana Opoku-Agyemang, Party Chairman, Mr Johnson Aseidu Nketiah, General Secretary, Mr Fifi Kwetey, and Professor Joshua Alabi, Campaign Coordinator of the party.
Other party members at the launch included Hannah Louisa Bissiw, National Women Organizer, and Mr Sammy Gyamfi, Communication Officer of the party.
Members of Parliament and other Parliamentary candidates of the party were present, including party executives across the country.
