Ranking Member on Parliament’s Food, Agriculture and Cocoa Affairs Committee, Eric Opoku, has expressed confidence in the next NDC administration righting the wrongs of this government.
He says the proposed 24-hour economy proposed by the flag bearer of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), John Dramani Mahama, will be the game-changer.
The Asunafo South Member of Parliament is confident the policy will address the economic mess created by the government of the New Patriotic Party (NPP).
The Minority caucus has maintained that the Akufo-Addo government’s reckless borrowing without anything to show for it, is the reason Ghana’s debt stock has risen to over GHC740billion.
In an engagement with journalists, Eric Opoku indicated that the amount of debt accumulated by the Akufo-Addo-Bawumia government is multiple times greater than what existed since independence.
“We have been reckless and irresponsible in the last seven years in our borrowing as a nation. From March 6, 1957, to January 7, 2017, Ghana was 60 years old, and our total debt was GHC120 billion, now within the last seven years, we have increased our debt stock to GHC742 billion. Indicating that in the last seven years, we have borrowed GHC622 billion, unprecedented in the history of our country,” he indicated.
To get the country out of the mess, the MP noted that Ghana cannot work for 8 hours and leave the remaining 16 hours idle.
“To get us out of this mess, what we have to do is to work hard, we used to work for 8 hours, what we’re saying is that we’re not going to rest for the 16 hours, let’s make economic use of all these hours,” the Ranking Member on the Food, Agriculture and Cocoa Affairs of Parliament said.
Source:onuaonline.com