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A member of the communication team for the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Lawyer Beatrice Annan has questioned the economic competence of Vice President Alhaji Dr Mahamudu Bawumia.<\/span><\/p>\n She says everyone\u2019s professional competence comes into play when faced with difficulties and complex challenges in their field but the Vice President has not come to bear in the midst of Ghana\u2019s current economic crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n \u2018\u2019If you are a professional, your professional competence come to play when you are faced with a challenge in your professional field.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cSo if you are a Lawyer, your test of being a Lawyer is when you are confronted with a complicated legal issued and you are able to develop a legal theory. Where is Dr Bawumia and what economic theory are we using to run the country?<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cAre we using the Walewale Adam Smith theory, because simply the Vice President who is the leader of the economic management team appears to have lost control of the wheel, it\u2019s as though we are on our own, nobody cares about us\u201d, she asserted.<\/span><\/p>\n Lawyer Beatrice made these remarks on Metro TV\u2019s Good Morning Ghana show on Tuesday, September 27, 2022.<\/span><\/p>\n She was sharing her views on a discussion about the current challenges in the country which is badly affecting the citizens.<\/span><\/p>\n Ghana’s economy is currently struggling with rising cost of living for the ordinary Ghanaian.<\/span><\/p>\n Fitch, a credit rating agency, has further downgraded Ghana\u2019s economy to \u201cCC\u201d from \u201cCCC\u2019.<\/span><\/p>\n Government and its spokesperson have maintained that the Russia-Ukraine war and the Covid-19 pandemic are the cause of Ghana’s economic crisis.<\/span><\/p>\n Vice President Dr Bawumia, who was touted as Ghana\u2019s economic messiah prior to 2017, has not publicly spoken about the current crisis facing the country.<\/span><\/p>\n This is what is perhaps pushing Lawyer Beatrice Annan to question his widely hyped economic prowess.<\/span><\/p>\n \u201cYour currency has depreciated so much for a man who bragged, the man who told us that he was the economic talisman to our economic issues, today he is not even as potent as paracetamol to cure the ache that we are facing in our economy\u201d, she said.<\/span><\/p>\n Watch <\/span>\ud83d\udc49\ud83c\udffd <\/span>video<\/a><\/p>\n Content created and supplied by: OEntertainment (via Opera \n , . , . () , , , , , , , , . \/ , and\/or . , , and\/or , and\/or <\/span>
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