Press Releases of Monday, 11 April 2022
Source: Moses Dometey
2022-04-11Bawumia's lecture was a campaign message, not to address current economic challenges
Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia
Press Release,
Action Movement Youth, AMY
April 10, 2022.
We, members of Action Movement Youth, AMY are very disappointed at the way Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is handling the affairs of this nation coupled with numerous lies.
Can Dr. Bawumia speak the truth just for once?
We have noticed that instead of Mr.
Read full articleBawumia addressing the current economic woes, he rather turned his recent lecture into projecting himself to be on the ticket of the New Patriotic Party 2024.
The lecture by Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia was not new from the previous lectures but the recent one was just to inform his party members of his intention to contest on the ticket of their party, nothing more, nothing less. It was empty delivery and we keep wondering why he, Bawumia kept on lying to the good people of this nation without telling us the true state of our economy.
Dr. Bawumia as the Vice President and the Head of the Economic Management team goes into hibernation when the country needs him the most without any trace of his whereabouts.
There were "red flags" that the economy was on the verge of collapsing since 2019 so blaming the incompetence of their poor governance on the COVID-19 pandemic and the Russian-Ukraine war is unacceptable.
Mr. Bawumia sold his integrity the very first day he joined the New Patriotic Party and his integrity is being dragged through the mud.
Dr. Bawumia always uses the taxpayers' money to organise empty deliveries and the one organised on April 8, 2022, was not an exception.
If we could all remember, the promises made by Mr. Bawumia prior to the 2016 and 2020 elections as far as Ghana's economy is concerned, almost six years now and we are rather experiencing retrogression instead of progression in our economy since Nana Addo /Bawumia took over the political mantle.
Dr. Bawumia is a professional competent liar who knows no shame.
He, bawumia should tell the whole world "how" and "what" changes "Digitization" has brought to the ordinary Ghanaians like myself. Does it provide the unemployed with jobs? Does it reduce the high cost of living in the country? How can just a two months crisis between Ukraine and Russia be the reason for your five years of economic woes or abysmal performance? Five years on in government and you cannot stop apportioning blames on the previous government.
It shows you are a weak leader. Where are the borrowed monies, contracted loans, the taxes we pay, etc
Do you remember what the Finance Minister, Mr. Ken Ofori Atta said recently?
What is the importance of "Digitization" if it doesn't serve its purposes?.
Today, Ghana’s public debt stock shot up by about GH¢27.8 billion in April 2021 and May 2021 to GH¢332.4 billion. As of March 2020, our public debt was GH¢ 235 billion and 120.3 billion as at December 2016.
Your government is struggling to service interest on public debt; as a result, lenders have started charging penalties on delayed interest payments. Have you forgotten that our debt levels are so high that we risk becoming a high debt distress country?. Yet, you have failed to show humility and competence in fixing your mess.
Now, on the rant about data, Available data points to your monumental failure to keep your word to the Ghanaian people, we want to remind you what Ghanaians want to know and not these long hour lectures:
1) When is Dr. Bawumia going to make available the $18 billion Chinese loan he promised us?
2) When is Bawumia going to draw down on the $2 billion sinohydro loan?
3) What happened to “No village in Ghana will have a challenge with toilet and water provision within 2 years of an NPP Government?”
4) How about your promise that “Every Ghanaian will have a bank account by end of 2018?" So, were you referring to a mobile money account or the E-Levy?
5) Cedi was arrested and the keys were given to the IGP? Yet you have failed to check the free fall of the cedi.
6) The promise of providing the necessary incentives for private sector participation in health service delivery remains a mirage. What happened to it?
7) Implementing policies that will reduce the cost of doing business has been a hoax.
8) The pledge to provide a reliable and cost-effective mix of energy supply for businesses has probably been long forgotten.
9) Pursuing aggressive industrialization and value addition to agricultural production has not seen the light of day.
10) The much-touted allocation of US$1 million annually per constituency has become a bitter fallacy.
11) The promise to develop interconnected roads, railways, ports, and harbor (RRHPs) systems remains a pipe dream.
12) The Water For All Programme has become another deception.
13) Dr. Bawumia’s promise to construct 570 dams in 2017 adds to his tall list of empty rhetoric.
14) Reducing the corporate tax rate from 25% to 20% has still not materialized.
15) The pledge to provide incentives for the hospitality and creative arts industry that will enable them create jobs has been another fiasco.
16) The promise to build hospitals in districts that lack them was totally forgotten until COVID-19 exposed the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia administration.
The litany of broken promises and outright deception is endless. We can go on and on.
Dr. Bawumia, pay attention to the data contained in the NPP 2016 manifesto and numerous promises you made in your recent post and deliver for that is the social contract the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government has with the people.
We end it here!
Domete Moses Tettey (Bola Ray Jnr),
President of AMY
HP: 0246969345
10th April, 2022.
(For English interview)
Erica Soyo
Vice President,
BMB
HP: +233 54 100 3617
(For Twi interview)
Courage Kwame Gbeve
Deputy Communication Officer, AMY
HP: +233 54 724 4462
(For Twi interview)
