The Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga Central Isaac Adongo has hit out at the Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta claiming that the Minister of Evaluation and Monitoring at the Jubilee House, Dr. Anthony Akoto Osei would have managed the economy far better.
According to him, all Mr. Ofori Atta has done since his appointment by the President is to look for business opportunities to enrich himself.
“The people that the NPP are missing is that dreaded combination that Kufuor had at the Ministry of Finance, Chartered Accountant the late Baah Wiredu and Dr. Anthony Akoto Osei, that is what the NPP is missing.
“We have an economy just basically being run by a businessman who is basically looking for business opportunities to enrich himself…in 2009 Databank was liquidity strapped, Databank should have gone down but it was hand held, today the minister of finance has no shame and he does business with his own company for the state at the Ministry of Finance.
“Databank is a joint book runner at the Bank of Ghana which is recruited by the Ministry of Finance,” Mr. Adongo told Starr FM Wednesday, adding that “infact Akoto Osei is the defacto finance minister we are missing today.”
Dr. Adongo added that the economy has been poorly managed by Mr. Ofori Atta in the last two years which has created more hardships for the citizens.
He also accused the Finance Minister of deliberately collapsing the local banks to enable his cronies pick them for pieces.
“The Banks are laying off workers…Beige is laying off 500 workers and there are plans to lay 5000 people…today you work at the banking sector at the peril of your life if Ken Ofori Atta still sits there because he will collapse the sector…clearly he has created the conditions for Ghanaian banks to fail so that his cronies will pick them up for pieces.”
Source: starrfmonline.com
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Dr Akoto Osei? Have u forgotten when Kufour left office Dufour in his presentation of budget said he had ran down the economy? U People have shot memory papa this man with quick temper and so arrogant please please suggest another name. In any case Dr Akoto Osei is part of the economic management team what would he have done different? Give us a break.
Hello people, Please let us forgive Mr. Adongo wai. The VAT "Ap) Kr)nKr)n" from Gabby Otchere that swerved them has dazed the NDC MPs. That is why they are talking by heart with pain, jealousy and utter hatred for the Minister of finance. He he heeeeeeeeeeeee. He doesn't even know that Prof Akoto is part of the economic management team.
Mr Adongo of late has been making petty statements which can be likened to a boy who has lost his toy. Where is this statement coming from? This present finance minister under his guidance has grown the country's economy by 8.5% in 2017 as against Mr Adongo's 'revered' minister, Mr Terkper's 3.7% in 2016. Indeed the IMF, the instituition which Mr Adongo's regime ran to when it ran down the country's economy made uncomplimentary remarks about the NDC's performance a year into the bail out. The man who Adongo is insinuating that, he should not have been the finance minister in this present govt but someone else, has received commendation for putting the economy on the right footing from the IMF. How does Mr Adongo explain that? Please just don't throw anything about because majority of Ghanaians won't swallow it.
NDC is being silly at playing this card. Why are they not saying Seth Terkpe did marvelous as Finance Minister. Then, Seth is their own and it's not long ago that he was Finance Minister. His performance is clear in the minds of Ghanaians, and therefore more lucid to draw a comparison with. Clearly, Ofori-Atta is one of our best Finance Ministers in the likes of Dr. Osei Akoto and Osafo Marfo & Co, of course. That notwithstanding, it is only appropriate to note that, NPP has the most competent Ministers in the Ghanian political scene.
The day GHANA will realize that it has CROOKS running our country, it’ll be too damned late!!! Adongo, yourvindication is just around the corner!!!
Please forgive Mr Adonko sorry Mr Adanko oooh sory Mr Adongo, he forgot to take his medicine. Esereba too much pitoo is killing you.
Hopeless man.
for once i agree with the mr. adongo, although i am not an ndc member. akoto osei would have done a far better job than ken ofori atta. this ken guy is not straight and he is not that adept at running an economy. he may have successfully ran databank at a point in time but i think akufo adddo has made a wrong choice. a lot of things are going wrong in the economy because of the way ken is going about tax rates and other issues
With all the NDC borrowing the economy grew by a mere 3.7%. Is that the record you want to tout? This guy thinks he knows more than the Governor of the BoG and The Finance Minister and the Economic Management Team but he could meet the selection when his party was in govt. So if he was not good enough for his party's team that could only manage 3.7% growth rate, how could meet the selection of a team that is achieving 8.5%+ other economic gains. These guys are only good talkers in opposition. People of Ghana should not forget what they put us through foe 8 odd and long years.
SETH TERKPER WAS FAR BETTER THAN THIS MORON KEN.