Former President John Mahama is being accused of spreading untruths about the economy by Ernest Owusu Bempah, the Governing New Patriotic Party’s deputy director of communications.
Because John Dramani Mahama acknowledges that the global economic crisis has affected various regions of the world, including Africa, Mr. Bempah claims that the former president has been exposed.
During a recent visit to Washington, DC, the former president confirmed that the world economy is truly in a recession in an exclusive interview with Hayde Adams for his hit show Straight Talk Africa on VOA News.
“I think that it’s a period of adversity for the whole world because it’s triggering a kind of global recession” the former president admitted.
The opposition NDC’s unsuccessful 2020 presidential candidate is known to have charged that the Akufo-Addo administration has mismanaged the economy, which has contributed to economic problems.
Mr. Mahama has repeatedly refuted claims made by government officials that the twin cataclysmic events of COVID-19 and the Russian/Ukrainian conflict cannot be held responsible for the economic difficulties facing Ghanaians.
In contrast to his persistent assertion in Ghana that such claims are untrue, Mr. Mahama acknowledges in his interview that COVID-19 and the ongoing conflict between Russia and Ukraine have contributed to the global recession.
In response to the latest development in Mr. Mahama’s ongoing refrain, Ernest Kofi Owusu-Bempah underlined that the former president, “John Mahama, has been exposed big time. He blames President Akufo-Addo and Vice President Bawumia for the challenges we are going through but goes out there to speak the truth”.
“Clearly, as we have always emphasized and even the IMF Boss recently reiterated, our challenges are not home-brewed but largely due to COVID-19 and the Russia/Ukraine war, a fact John Mahama has been rejecting all this while. His interview with the VOA is a testament to the fact that indeed the challenges we are facing are attributable to the deadly coronavirus pandemic and the never-ending Russian/Ukrainian conflict” Mr Owusu-Bempah stated.
Source: Mybrytnewsroom.com/Joseph Asare
