Dr Ekow Spio-Garbrah, a former trade and industry minister in the John Mahama administration, has criticized President Akufo-Addo for not keeping the pledges he made to Ghanaians.
The lawmaker claimed in a yet-to-air interview on PM Express Personality Profile that the President had broken his vow to guard the public coffers and refrain from appointing friends and family to positions of authority.
“Many of the things that our current president promised us when he was being sworn in that he will take care of the public purse, that he will not appoint family and friends, almost all those things that he will lay his presidency on the line to protect our natural resources actually the rivers bodies and our gold most of those promises have become nothing. They have just gone out and there is no attempt to apologise,” he told host, Aisha Ibrahim.
He claimed that since the NDC left office with a reasonably strong economy, the majority of the nation’s present economic problems should be attributed to the current administration.
The former Communications Minster during Rawlings’ regime explained that the government’s “overestimating” of its capacities left it to avoid precautions for its expenditure, hence overspending and mismanaging the economy.
“Most of the current crisis began with the current government they have to take some or most of the responsibility because they were left with a fairly good economy by the previous outgoing Mahama administration.
“The way they went about misunderstanding the economy and misrepresenting and as it were overestimating their capabilities and all we have the men thing is now basically coming to haunt us,” he noted.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Joseph Asare
