Bawumia couldn’t address the suffering of Ghanaians – Adongo

The Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga Central, Isaac Adongo is of the view Vice President, Mahumudu Bawumia’s address on the state of Ghana’s economy Thursday evening made no impact on Ghanaians. 

According to him, the ‘economic messiah’ failed to address the realities confronting Ghanaians with respect to the economic situations in the country, but was rather shifting blames from one point to the other.

“it was important that we got the Vice President to speak because when the ship is sinking, you want to be comfortable that there is leadership that will rescue you. When the Vice President speaks, you want to go with high points that give him some comfort. Unfortunately, I got more of the same feeling I listened to him with and I was wondering whether someone was actually in charge of this economy” he said on Good Morning Ghana on Friday morning on Metro TV.

He added, “Anyone who engages in economics average, particularly in a crisis regime is telling you that their performance in the last compensates for whatever challenges we are facing, which is not the reality. Especially when someone deals in the economics of averages in a dishonest way, it is more worrying. NDC had been in government for 8 years. If you want to do a 5-year comparison do so, if it is 8 you want to do, we have a 4-year record. You can’t consistently compare 4 years to 5 years. Even level 100 students won’t do that”.

“Are we descending or ascending? If we are descending, what is the medium to long-term outlook going to look like, based on the measures we are putting in place. We don’t look to the past for comfort but the future for comfort and confidence in the economy. Yesterday [Thursday], Bawumia lost a huge opportunity to speak directly to the people who are worried about the economy.”

This comes after the Vice President delivered the address on Thursday, April 7, 2022.

Speaking at an event jointly organised by the Danquah Institute and the NPP’s TESCON at Kasoa in the Central Region, the Vice President touched on issues bordering on Ghana’s rising debt stock, the cedi depreciation, inflation rate, and the impact of Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on the Ghanaian economy.