The NDC promises to increase pressure on the government to remove the 10% tax on bet wins.

The National Democratic Congress (NDC) has maintained its intention to stage a series of protests in order to push the government to repeal the 10% betting tax.
The tax, according to the party, is unjust and would only exacerbate the burden and poor economic situations of the country’s young people.
On Eyewitness News on Citi FM, Deputy young Organiser of the NDC, Osman Ayariga, asked the government to find measures to rectify its irresponsibility, which he claimed has resulted in widespread suffering, rather than transferring its economic problem to the young.
He promised that the opposition NDC will utilize all legal methods to force the government to reverse its decision.

“We are all going through hardship due to the recklessness and incompetence of this government, and we will be showing a roadmap on what we are going to do to press upon this government to rescind its decision so far as the 10 percent tax on bet earnings is concerned.”
“We are going to picket at the Ministry of Finance and occupy government offices across the country. Start and scale up nationwide conventional and unconventional and lawful agitations as a measure of resistance and to instigate young people to confront officials of this government to demand an end to the corruption and insensitivity of the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia failed brigade.”

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He also refuted the claim made by Majority Leader Osei Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu that young people who gamble are idle.
Osman Ayariga argued that the adolescents’ fondness for gambling stems from the government’s inefficiency and the resulting suffering.

“The youth of Ghana are hardworking, and it is only an incompetent government that will say Ghanaian youth are lazy, so let it not be said anywhere that the youth of Ghana are lazy. The youth are suffering due to the incompetence of this administration because it has failed to provide jobs for the youth and the bet they engage in is the effect of the government’s inability to provide jobs for the youth and we in the NDC are here for the youth, and we will stand with them.”