Dr. Anthony Yaw Baah, secretary general of the Trades Union Congress (TUC), stated that the congress is eager to learn the IMF’s perspective on the current National Cathedral project.
He mentioned that the cathedral is being built at a challenging time when there is not enough food available for students to consume at their schools.
“If you make a cathedral priority of priorities, there is something wrong with it. We will see. If we are in these hard times and cathedrals would be built when children cannot get free meals, when our SHS students cannot get food to eat in Ghana.
“There is something wrong, and you are building a cathedral. So we will see if the IMF will allow this cathedral thing to go on,” he said at a press conference.
Furthermore, Dr Yaw Baah disagreed with the government’s decision to approach the Fund since, in his opinion, the Bretton Woods organization will not be able to address the core economic problems.
“Our main challenge with the management of the economy has to do with the corruption and failure on the part of successive governments to transform the structure of the economy of this country so that Ghanaians can produce what we eat and eat what we produce,” he said.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Jospeh Asare
