The opposition New Patriotic Party has boycotted the National Economic Forum scheduled to begin, Monday, describing it as a PR gimmick.
The party, among other things, claims government has adopted its own economic reforms between 2014 and 2017, including the retrenchment of workers and has communicated same to the IMF.
It therefore finds it intriguing why the government will seek to organise such a forum when it appears it had made up its mind on how it intends to run the economy for the next three years.
At a press conference in Accra on Monday, the National Chairman of the party Paul Afoko insisted the NPP is committed towards consensus building and partnership in national development but would not be part of a “deliberate propaganda and PR gimmick, to hoodwink the good people of Ghana in the face of monumental hardships we have been subjected to.”
The following is the full statement
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