A deputy Finance Minister under the Kufuor administration, Mr Kwaku Agyemang-Manu has warned that if the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) continues on its borrowing spree, the country may retrogress from its celebrated lower middle income status to a HIPC country again.<\/p>\n
He said taking Ghana\u2019s debt stock from $ 8.025 billion in 2008 to $ 13.4 billion in 2011 cannot, under any circumstance, be a sustainable way of managing the economy and that must be a concern to Ghanaians.<\/p>\n
Speaking on the Minority Caucus on MultiTV Wednesday evening, Mr Agyeman-Manu said, \u201cYou see, borrowing is good, but you have to borrow \u2013 let me use that harsh word \u2013 wisely.\u201d<\/p>\n
He said all Ghanaians must be concerned because apart from the lightening speed at which the government had added to Ghana\u2019s debt, also in the pipeline were colossal amounts the government was still contracting.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhere they are driving us is very dangerous. This [debt] level is minus the $1.5 billion Korea thing, the STX (housing loan), this is minus the $13 billion arranged Chinese one that has not [yet] been accessed, this is minus SADA’s $300 million that was announced just last week, minus the $400 million that became an issue, minus the $1.8 billion for the eastern corridor road because Parliament even hasn\u2019t approved that. So now within the next six months, if we manage to get all these [loan agreements approved] and we begin to access them\u2026where will we get to? Where will we go?, he asked.<\/p>\n
Government has argued it is mischievous to seek to add the $1.5 billion STX loan to the debt stock because the houses had not yet been built and government was not obligated to pay a dime, but Mr Agyeman-Manu disagrees. He said that argument is risible at least.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have announced to the nation that you have finished, it is coming so we can add on so we may have two budgets; committed debts and non-committed debts plus that.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr Agyeman-Manu, who is also the Member of Parliament for Dormaa West, said it was ironic that the NDC, after complaining bitterly about the debt they inherited and which they blamed for not being able to deliver on their promises, had in two years borrowed $5 billion, representing 60 per cent of the debt left by former President Kufuor\u2019s eight-year rule.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou see, we should be very cautious and take away some aspects of propaganda and politics and concentrate on the work that Ghanaians have assigned to us [in order] to do the work better so that we can have the moral courage to go back to them to ask for another mandate,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n
The government has been explaining that unlike the NPP which borrowed and didn\u2019t use the money prudently, it is investing aggressively in the country\u2019s infrastructure.<\/p>\n
But Mr Agyeman-Manu is not convinced.<\/p>\n
He challenged the government to point to one major infrastructural project it had initiated that is work in progress. In his view all the projects the president has gone around the nation commissioning were either GETFund projects or those undertaken by the various Metropolitan, municipal and district assemblies. Such projects, he emphasized, have been undertaken with dedicated funds.<\/p>\n
As far as he is concerned, central government has not undertaken any serious project on its own. \u201cI have been questioning and asking people to ask our NDC colleagues to point [out] to us, central government projects they have either started, advanced to about 20, 30, 15, 5 per cent completion and what they plan doing. You can\u2019t find any!\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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