Demonstrators from Leadership of the Arise Ghana have urged Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta to eliminate the “obnoxious Electronic Transfer Levy (E-levy),” as they refer to it.
The group said that the E-levy “is placing further hardship on the people of Ghana, syphoning their capital and, above all, seizing our savings” while presenting a copy of their petition to the Ministry of Finance on Wednesday.
“The Ministry should take urgent steps to ensure that inflation is brought down to the barest minimum so that the poor with the little income can be able to afford basic commodities. That you should do everything possible to arrest the deteriorating currency which is now among the worst in the world,” one of the leaders of the group, Bernard Mornah read a portion of the petition.
In addition, Mr Mornah emphasized that the government needed to lower the high unemployment rate in the nation and rethink its decision to reintroduce the Agyapa deal to Parliament.
“We are on a simple mission that there are difficulties and that everything the economic hardship that the people of Ghana are going through as a result of the bad policies that is formulated by the Ministry of Finance.
“We are standing here despite the petition being addressed to the Speaker of Parliament that is the representative of the people we see it fit to give you a copy so that you understand the issues therein and take pragmatic steps to alleviate the plight and the suffering of the people of Ghana,” he added.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Joseph Asare
