Haruna Iddrisu, the Minority Leader in Parliament, claims that when President Akufo-Addo addressed the nation on Sunday, he failed to take and accept responsibility for the economic mess he has created.
“He appeared as if he’s still on a campaign platform,” he said in an interview with Joy FM’s Super Morning Show, adding that the president was only interested in a deception tactic in which he blamed others or external factors for Ghana’s current economic woes.
Mr. Akufo-Addo, according to the Tamale South legislator, should have admitted that he had borrowed excessively and misled the country rather than trying to avoid accountability yet again.
According to him, Ghana’s economy is now “trash and I believe that the President failed to radiate hope and he failed to provide concrete solutions to the urgent economic crises facing our country.”
He added, “The President failed to take and accept responsibility for leading Ghana into this economic crisis. For me, that is my deepest concern and worry. He simply should have said ‘I take responsibility for the economic crises I have created’ and emphasized that ‘I borrowed excessively’.”
Among other economic crunch issues, he noted that inflation has eaten away at people’s income, purchasing power, and real income of salaried workers and civil servants.
He believes that the hardships and challenges that Ghanaians are facing are unprecedented and “excruciating” because of the “unprecedented rise in the cost of living, unprecedented rise in the cost of doing business,” among other things.
“It was essentially a mini-2023 budget statement read by the president, with no concrete [solutions].” Cleverly, he goes on to say that unemployment is the greatest threat in peacetime, and then he wades into the world. No, he must remain in Ghana because he claims that 100 million people are being forced into extreme poverty.
