Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson, a former Deputy Minister of Finance has listed the seven (7) reasons behind Ghana’s economic chaos Ghana is currently going through.
The renowned lawmaker for the Ajumako-Enyan-Esiam Constituency in the Central Region on the ticket of the National Democratic Congress listed the 7 reasons in a statement.
In the face of many economic challenges- fund misappropriation, scandals, high cost of living, among others, the government seems not to address the challenge with a well-calculated step and the best option out of the jam they created is to resort to IMF.
The Former Deputy Minister of Finance outlined his 7 reasons to the mess Ghana is facing currently and promised to be back for more.
Read through his Ato Forson’s mind
- “The NPP has the largest size of government in the history of Ghana! Find out how many ministers they’ve appointed from 2017. At one point, they had over 125 ministers!”
- “This government has over 1,000 presidential staffers paid as article 71 office holders at the jubilee House!”
- “They’ve also appointed soo many special assistants to ministers with emoluments close to that of deputy ministers at the various MDA’s.”
- “The number of spokespersons at various MDA’s paid above the pay of Directors!”
- “The number of CEO’s at various State-owned Enterprises (SOEs) and their pay packages! Many of these SOEs now employ three or four deputy CEOs with fat conditions of service!”
- “The impact of the Over 50 new agencies with zero output, eg. CODA, NADA, MBDA, free SHS secretariat, 1D1F secretariat, Petroleum Hub Development Authority, Ghana cares Secretariat, etc.”
- “The unconscionable decision to send over 100 Databank staff to the Finance Ministry as special assistants and paid as customs commissioners on GRA’s payroll!”
SOURCE: Coverghana.com.gh