Haruna Iddrisu, the education minister has fired shots at the New Patriotic Party (NPP) members of parliament.
The member of parliament noted that the minority must own up to their role in supporting the former finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta to destroy Ghana’s economy.
According to Haruna Iddrisu, the minority must walk in regret and live in regret for messing up Ghana’s economy.
Speaking on the floor of parliament Haruna Iddrisu stated, “Mr Speaker, IMF, they said superior managers of the economy. What happened to the Fiscal Responsibility Act? It was on suspension even before you exited political power. You said you wanted Fiscal prudence; you brought in the Fiscal Responsibility Act with Ken Ofori Atta as your Minister. When we said sensor him, you said no.
Now that you have lost, you want to blame him for everything. You supported him to mess the country up, mess the economy up and mess your administration up, so walk in regret and live in regret. When we said that he should be called to order, you overborrowed.
Mr Speaker, again let this Parliament work for the people of Ghana. Ghana Needs to have a ceiling on how much we can borrow. It cannot be at every time as it pleases the Finance Minister, he walks here, Parliament fails in its responsibility, grants him,” the education minister added.
The education minister further noted that the former Akufo-Addo government had an elephant appetite for borrowing.
He added, “Mr Speaker, again let this Parliament work for the people of Ghana. Ghana needs to have a ceiling on how much we can borrow. It cannot be at every time as it pleases the Finance Minister, he walks here, Parliament fails in its responsibility, grants him,” he said while speaking to Parliament.
Adding that “between 2017 and 2021 before COVID, $3.5 billion, yet the previous NDC administration did just $1.5 billion. So again, elephant’s appetite for borrowing. Your government had an elephant appetite for borrowing.
Every time you wanted to borrow. You undertook physical infrastructure; you said you were building Agenda 111 hospitals, 88. At least if two or three were functional, it would make a meaningful contribution to maternal health and improve healthcare delivery in Ghana. Your overambitious initiative; you got none completed. You were more interested in winning votes at the December election than caring for Ghanaians,” he said.
Meanwhile, Managing editor of the Insight newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr has hit back at the New Patriotic Party (NPP) for having the guts to talk about the exchange rate stability today.
Kwesi Pratt Jnr asserted that the NPP took over when the dollar rate was 3.4 cedis to 1 dollar and left it at 16 cedis.
Speaking on Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana, Kwesi Pratt Jnr stated, “My brother, you are talking about exchange rate stability today, shocking, why, you take over at a time when the dollar rate was 3.4 cedis to 1 dollar, today the rate is 16 cedis to a dollar and you are telling us about exchange rate stability”.
As if words don’t mean anything, exchange rate stability from 3.4 to a dollar 16 to a dollar and you are talking about exchange rate stability. It is just completely baffling”, he added.
The veteran Journalist added, “For the ordinary Ghanaians, normal Ghanaians and so on if they are to judge the State of the economy and they use their own lives to judge the state of the economy, what conclusion can they come to?
Prices of every item have escalated, in some cases as much about a thousand per cent and then you tell us the state of the economy and so on, you took over when a ball of Kenkey was 50 pesewas, and you left office with the same ball of kenkey at 5 cedis and you are telling me about the resilient economy that you left, what resilient national economy”.
