Former President John Mahama<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\nFormer President John Dramani Mahama has said the government can do all the propaganda it can with the economy but the reality will eventually expose the Akufo-Addo administration.<\/p>\n
While giving the vote of thanks at an economic forum of the main opposition National Democratic Congress in Accra on Thursday, 4 April 2019, a day after a similar event by the Economic Management Team led by Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, Mr Mahama said: \u201cYou can do all the lies and propaganda with the economy [that] you like, the reality of the people\u2019s lives will expose you.\u201d<\/p>\n
Speaking at the same event, the Ranking Member on the Finance Committee of Parliament, Mr Cassiel Ato Forson charged President Nana Akufo-Addo to gag Vice-President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia because the utterances of the former deputy governor of the Bank of Ghana cause the depreciation of the Ghana cedi against other major currencies of trade, especially the United States Dollar.<\/p>\n
In his view, the remarks by Dr Bawumia the town hall meeting on Wednesday, 4 April 2019, caused the cedi to further depreciate against the US dollar.<\/p>\n
\u201cI will urge the president to restrain his vice-president because anytime he speaks, the currency moves,\u201d the former Deputy Minister of Finance stated at the opposition National Democratic Congress\u2019 public lecture on Ghana’s economy in Accra on Thursday, 4 April 2019.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou heard him talk about the likes of the judiciary and the court systems. What has that got to do with the economic management team? He had nothing to say. He was just playing with numbers. And again, you know him and his credentials of lying with numbers. You could see lies,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
On Wednesday, however, Bloomberg\u2019s figures showed that the Ghana Cedi was GHS5.30 to 1$. As of 4 p.m. on Thursday, 4 April 2019, Bloomberg\u2019s figures showed that the Ghana Cedi was GHS 5.22 to $1 as shown in the graph below.<\/p>\n
Dr Bawumia had said that it is \u201cwarped\u201d reasoning on the part of the NDC to say that the fact that there has been a fall in the value of the cedi necessarily means Ghana\u2019s economic fundamentals are weak.<\/p>\n
Dr Bawumia said the cedi fall was largely due to external factors rather than weak fundamentals of the economy, unlike, in his opinion, it pertained in 2014 when he (Dr Bawumia), famously said: \u201cIf the fundamentals are weak, the exchange rate will expose you\u201d.<\/p>\n
According to Dr Bawumia, \u201cFactors such as the inflation rate, the balance of trade, the fiscal balance, money supply, are what we refer to as the fundamentals. But speculation and expectations about these fundamentals; external shocks such as oil price increases, can also have powerful short-term effects on the exchange rate.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen we see pressures on the exchange rate, first we need to determine where these pressures are coming from or whether the pressures are transitory or permanent. And as every astute central banker knows, even with strong economic fundamentals, speculation, expectation and investor sentiment can exert pressures on the exchange rate.<\/p>\n
\u201cLadies and gentlemen, you will recall that I stated in 2014 that: \u2018If the fundamentals are weak, the exchange rate will expose you\u2019. That was true then and it\u2019s true now. It is 100 per cent correct.<\/p>\n
\u201cBut it is warped logic to jump from that to a conclusion that if there is depreciation in your currency, then the fundamentals must be weak. Do you understand the logic? If the fundamentals are weak, the exchange rate will expose you, but if the exchange rate moves, you cannot jump to that conclusion that the fundamentals are weak. That defies logic\u201d, Dr Bawumia said, adding: \u201cThere could be external factors causing the exchange rate depreciation\u201d.<\/p>\n
\u201cFor example\u201d, Dr Bawumia said, \u201cif I tell you that if your leg is broken, you are going to be unable to walk, then I\u2019m somewhere and somebody comes to tell me: \u2018This person is unable to walk, can I just conclude that the leg must be broken?\u2019<\/p>\n
\u201cThere can be other reasons why you are unable to walk. But the NDC logic will insist in the face of contrary evidence that since you cannot walk, it must mean that your leg has broken.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn 2014 \u2026 the economic fundamentals had weakened significantly, and, therefore, the depreciation was easily explained. It was not caused by dwarfs or high rise buildings as we were told. The exchange rate for 2014 had exposed the weak economic fundamentals.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf you look on the screen, it gives you the fundamentals as we had it in 2014 and 2018. Every single one of them: real GDP growth, inflation, the fiscal balance, the wage bill, wage bill-to-GDP, gross debt, interest rate, current account, all the fundamentals, you\u2019ll see that we were in a much weaker position in 2014 compared to 2018. So, ladies and gentlemen, how have the cedi performed recently? At the end of December 2017, the cedi had cumulatively depreciated by 4.9 per cent compared to 9.6 per cent in 2016. And this was the cedi\u2019s best performance since 2011. And at the end of 2017, we had the best performance of the cedi till 2011.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe cedi, however, depreciated by 8.4 per cent in 2018 largely on account of the emerging market pressure and US interest rate increase.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe data on the annual rate of depreciation of the cedi in recent years show that the worst performance of the cedi so far under the NPP government, the 8.4 per cent depreciation that we saw since 2018, that worst performance is better than the best performance under the previous government between 2012 and 2016. So our worst is better than your best. And when you say this, this one is more like boot-for- chalewote.<\/p>\n
\u201cLadies and gentlemen, the start of 2019 has been characterised by another sudden sharp depreciation of the cedi which has largely been reversed. Within a week, the cedi went up close to GHS5.9 to the dollar and then it retreated back to GHS5.07 and even was threatening to go below GHS5 but this is really an unprecedented development \u2013 that you don\u2019t normally see such a retreat when the exchange rate depreciates. And you\u2019ll see that in this period when there was a reversal in the cedi depreciation, the Bank of Ghana had not intervened in the market\u201d, Dr Bawumia said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
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