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Going To IMF Depicts NPP Government Lacks The Men - Benjamin Kofi Quashie

Tue, 23 May 2023 Source: Island Reporters

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Benjamin Kofi Quashie, the group chairman of Allied Consortiums and the chairman of the National Democratic Congress's South African Council of Elders, has chastised those who applaud the government for obtaining an IMF bailout.

He calls Ghana's economic state a "sinking ship" and says it is in a mess.

"The truth of the issue is that Ghanaians would suffer economically as a result of the IMF bailout. They aren't notifying the people about this, he observed.

He claimed, when discussing the IMF bailout with Agyenkwa Media through Zoom, that "It was shameful seeing bondholders picketing with their grandchildren, but this government doesn't care".

He said that this government should not be commended for securing us an IMF loan because they were the same people who taunted the John Dramani Mahama government for going to the IMF, "so what has changed?", he quizzed.

The SA NDC Council Chair added that, on the Twitter account of Ekow Essuman (one of the legal brains at the office of the current president)... at point in 2016, he indicated that 'it was only a lazy government that runs to IMF because of your disregard for rules and regulations regarding the financial sector' ", he revealed.

He continues that today the same individual has posted that we should be praising Nana Addo and Ken Ofori-Atta for securing an IMF bailout for the country. "For me it's laughable. If it's them..., I wonder whether they've conscience. I wonder whether they sleep and wake up believing that we're deaf or dumb", he stated.

Regarding the bailout, he indicated that the country needs the money because "we are in a self-inflicted economic quagmire. Happy they've gotten the bailout, happy the economy is going to take shape, happy that finally what the minority advised that you needed to go for an IMF programme that would regulate your micro economic expenditure... We're there now", he underscored.

He however, expressed his disbelief whether the NPP government was going to use the money for the right things with the inflows from the IMF. "But, whatever they do, it's a sinking ship. John Dramani Mahama is the only hope to rescuing us from this sinking ship", He claimed.

BY DC KWAME KWAKYE

Source: Island Reporters