President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been admonished by former President John Dramani Mahama to accept responsibility for the economic difficulties the nation is currently facing.
According to Mr. Mahama, the first step in solving the issue is for the President to first acknowledge responsibility before enlisting assistance.
In order to win the position of National Democratic Congress (NDC) flagbearer in the general elections of 2024, he made this statement while beginning a campaign trip in Wenchi.
“If you are a person who leads, the first principle of leadership is responsibility, you must take responsibility for every situation and work to solve it. If you don’t take responsibility and you are the kind of leader who is always looking for somebody to blame you will never be able to solve problems.
“When this government took over from our government, the total national debt was GHS120 billion. Today, that debt is almost 600 billion, in five and a half short years and the president had the temerity to say that there has been no recklessness in borrowing. What else is recklessness than what he and his Finance Minister have done? It is not that their attention was not drawn, from 2018 every budget that they brought, the Minority in Parliament said you were overborrowing, even the World Bank told them that you are risking into debt distress because of too much debt, and they refused to listen,” he said.
Source:Mybryfmonline.com/Joseph Asare
