The former Finance Minister Dr Amin Adam has fired shots at President John Dramani Mahama rejecting claims Ghana’s economy is in crisis.
According to Dr Amin Adam, he worries when John Mahama say he inherited a struggling economy.
He further quizzed whether John Mahama was on Mars
Dr Amin Adam asserted that Ghana’s economic situation has received recent positive assessments by international financial bodies.
Speaking on JOY NEWS, Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam stated, “This is why, when I hear President Mahama say that he inherited a struggling economy, I worry, He’s calling for a national economic dialogue. I worry. I wonder, where is he from? Was he on Mars?”
“Just on the second of December, the IMF gave a judgment on our economy. The IMF that they have also been consulting since it came into government. They have been talking to the IMF. They have been talking to the World Bank, which on December 2, gave an emphatic judgment about the economy”, he added.
Talking about his tenure at the Finance Ministry, Dr Amin Adam added, “I did a lot of external work, particularly working with the IMF to implement the IMF program and then also doing the debt restructuring with the Eurobonds. Those were significant moments in the history of our country, and I took them very seriously.
I benefited from the international experience as well. I talked to many consultants and advisors, both in Ghana and abroad, and I was very happy that eventually, we had a successful negotiation and restructuring of our bonds”, he added.
Dr Amin Adam added, “The implementation of the IMF program has been one of the major success stories of my tenure, going through three successful reviews, the last review being on the second of December”.
