Former President John Dramani Mahama has indicated that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo Addo has run out of ideas on how to solve the economic challenges in the country.
According to Mr Mahama,although Akufo-Addo is in charge of the nation’s massive economic crisis, the President is instead using his influence to aid the newly elected flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Dr Mahamudu Bawumia to win the 2024 general elections.
He claimed the President Akufo-Addo lacks the authority to turn the economy around and provide decent living conditions for the citizenry.
Speaking to the members of the Trades Union Congress (TUC) in Accra on Tuesday, November 7, Mr Mahama reiterated that “He (Akufo-Addo)run out of ideas on how to solve the economic challenges we find ourselves in. By his recent declaration, his focus and last energy are going to be expended on installing his anointed successor as the next president.”
Mr Mahama again accused Finance Minister Ken Ofori- Ata of reckless borrowing, leading to the economic challenges the country experiencing now.
According to him, the economic challenges could have been circumvented if the Finance Minister had embarked on ‘reckless ‘ borrowing.
“We could have avoided this unpleasant [economic] situation, the signs of these crises were there for all to see…conflicted Finance Minister, whose interest was to borrow recklessly and mire our economy with the quagmire of debt was obvious as far as from 2019.” He added.
The Secretary General of the Ghana Trades Union Congress (TUC), Dr Anthony Yaw Baah lauded the former president Mahama for what he describes as the “game changer” policy propounded by Mr Mahama in creating job opportunities for the teeming unemployed youth.
Mr Mahama had proposed a 24-hour economy, which would see workers engaged in a three-shift system.
“We are also very interested and eager to know more about his great idea of a 24-hour economy,” Dr Yaw Baah intimated ahead of the former president’s address.
“I think this one, Comrade, you have to take your time because I can imagine the amount of jobs that this kind of thing will create.
“That could be the game-changer. I am telling you. That you have opportunity in this country to work 24 hours, 3 shifts.
“So, if you don’t get job in the morning, you can get it in the afternoon or in the night,” he noted.
Dr Yaw Baah urged the youth to be readily ready for jobs with this policy by the NDC ahead of the 2024 polls.
“I think and I mean it, that this is a great idea that was lying somewhere and never discovered and we will be eager to hear a lot more about it.”
Mr Baah also presented TUC’s manifesto to the flagbearer of the NationalDemocraticCongress (NDC)Mr Mahama.
By Lawrence Odoom