The National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer, John Dramani Mahama, has characterized 2023 as a year of suffering and difficult circumstances that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his vice president, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, have imposed on the people of Ghana.
claimed that 2023 had been nothing more than a continuation of years of suffering and economic challenges for Ghanaians in his 2024 New Year’s greeting from his Tamale home.
“We have all lived painfully through the challenges the failed Akufo-Addo-Bawumia administration has inflicted on us through their reckless mismanagement of the economy, poor governance, bare-faced corruption, and profligate expenditure at the expense of socio-economic and infrastructural development. 2023 had been nothing but a continuation of the years of hardship, the high cost of living, and worsening poverty for the Ghanaian people.”
He went on to say that although many people had thought that the 2024 budget would at least provide some relief, what Ghanaians actually received from the government was a bevy of new levies.
“The 2024 budget provides no hope for an improvement in our circumstances. A raft of new tax measures have been slapped on us to raise an additional GH¢11 billion from the already overburdened taxpayers. In that same budget, while they sort to squeeze the last blood from Ghanaians through increased taxes, they have increased the money allocated to the Office of the President from GH¢1.4 billion to over GH¢2 billion.”
Source: Mybrytfmonline.com/Joseph Asare
