Mahama holds mutual discussion with American ambassador to Ghana
Former President John Dramani Mahama has today held a discussion with the American ambassador to Ghana, HE Virginia Palmer on matters of mutual interest to Ghana and America.
They discussed the state of “security in the West African subregion and it’s implications for Ghana, the state of our economy, investment in local industries, and the hostility of the Electoral Commission towards the NDC”.
Mahama outlined some of the actions that led Ghana into an IMF program. He named “the missteps of the government, poor economic decisions, the collapse of indigenous banks and finance institutions instead of saving them, corruption, and the misappropriation of COVID-19 funds, which were shared to party officials” as factors that sent Ghana to its current state.
He concluded the discussion by stating that as government enters into an IMF program, he expressed confidence that it will be guarded and act responsibly.
“I also expressed confidence that following the IMF programme, there would be more discipline in government’s handling of the economy. Confidence will only be restored when people know that we are in a programme and that the government will not behave as recklessly as it did in the past,” president Mahama said.
Read his full post about the discussion below.
I received and held discussions with American Ambassador to Ghana, HE Virginia E. Palmer, on matters of mutual interest to Ghana and America.
Among others, we discussed the state of security in the West African subregion and it’s implications for Ghana, the state of our economy, investment in local industries, and the hostility of the Electoral Commission towards the NDC.
Ghana’s economic woes, I explained, have been compounded by the missteps of the government, poor economic decisions, the collapse of indigenous banks and finance institutions instead of saving them, corruption, and the misappropriation of COVID-19 funds, which were shared to party officials.
I also expressed confidence that following the IMF programme, there would be more discipline in government’s handling of the economy. Confidence will only be restored when people know that we are in a programme and that the government will not behave as recklessly as it did in the past.
By: Agaatorne Douglas Asaah | myactiveonline.com
