{"id":1150041,"date":"2022-07-15T16:05:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T16:05:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/15\/stop-blaming-ndc-for-your-incompetence-ato-forson-slams-bawumia\/"},"modified":"2022-07-15T16:05:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T16:05:27","slug":"stop-blaming-ndc-for-your-incompetence-ato-forson-slams-bawumia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/15\/stop-blaming-ndc-for-your-incompetence-ato-forson-slams-bawumia\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop blaming NDC for your incompetence \u2013 Ato Forson slams Bawumia"},"content":{"rendered":"

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The Minority in Parliament has dismissed claims by Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, that the National Democratic Congress administration is to blame for the country\u2019s current debt burden, which compelled government to seek support from the International Monetary Fund.<\/p>\n

The Vice President attributed the pressures of the banking sector clean-up and the energy sector capacity payments to failings by the John Mahama administration that handed over power to the New Patriotic Party government in 2017.<\/p>\n

Dr. Bawumia made the comments on Thursday, July 14, 2022, while speaking at the launch of Accra Business School\u2019s IT programmes.<\/p>\n

Addressing the media, Ranking Member on the Finance Committee, Dr. Cassiel Ato Forson called on the Akufo-Addo administration to take responsibility for its mess.<\/p>\n

Dr. Ato Forson referred Dr. Bawumia to his earlier assurances to Ghanaians that the government had put in place adequate measures to prevent a return to the IMF.<\/p>\n

\u201cIn April this year, the same Dr. Bawumia, told the whole nation that the Economic Management Team under his chairmanship had put in place adequate measures to prevent the nation from going for an IMF programme. Today, Ghana is back to the IMF not even in good shape, but in dire economic situation. Is this not a spite of the Vice President\u2019s assurance?\u201d he quizzed.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou will agree that we are not in normal times<\/span>. Indeed, <\/span>we are<\/span> in<\/span> very perilous moments<\/span>; <\/span>we are in uncharted waters<\/span>;<\/span> there are difficult moments ahead and<\/span> so,<\/span> what we expect from the head <\/span> <\/span>of the <\/span>Economic Management Team<\/span> is some modicum of<\/span> respect,<\/span> honesty, integrity, and above all seriousness<\/span> when it comes to governance and the issue of the economy. <\/span>This is not the time <\/span>for<\/span> theat<\/span>re<\/span> comedy,<\/span> and obviously not <\/span>the time<\/span> for IT <\/span>jocular pranks. We are t<\/span>ired <\/span>of the monotonous blame game on former President Mahama.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

Ato Forson at the press conference said: \u201c<\/span>Rather than taking responsibility and building consensus to tackle the excruciating and untold hardship<\/span>s<\/span> the people of Ghana are currently facing, Dr. Bawumia rather chose to resort to the frivolous and unsubstantiated blame game.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

He advised Dr. Bawumia<\/span> to accord the office he occupies the respect it deserves. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThe office of the Vice-President is a serious office and must be treated as such. <\/span>He<\/span> cannot <\/span>metamorphose <\/span>into a propaganda poster boy, thus serving as a conduit for peddling falsehood<\/span>s.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cFrom all indications,<\/span> the Vice-President president has clearly lost focus, making<\/span> <\/span>his<\/span> office<\/span> look<\/span> irrelevant while<\/span> demeaning the standards expected of a Vice-President,\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n

Dr. Ato Forson further urged Dr. Bawumia to<\/span> concentrate on his c<\/span>ore<\/span> duties as head of the economic team<\/span> and <\/span>allow the Minister of Information to perform h<\/span>is<\/span> duties<\/span> as prescribed by convention.<\/span><\/p>\n

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