National Youth Organizer of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Salam Mustapha insists the governing party is a better manager of the economy than the Opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).
According to Mustapha, the NPP’s government led by Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has been able to efficiently manage the country’s economy and undertake numerous developmental projects despite the current global economic difficulties occasioned by the outbreak of COVID-19 and the ongoing geopolitical tension between Russia and Ukraine.
He claimed, unlike citizens of other countries who are facing the full blow of the crisis, the impact on Ghanaians has been mitigated due to the sound economic management of the NPP’s government.
But this, he said, would not have been the case if the NDC led John Dramani Mahama was still at the helm of affairs.
Mustapha argued that the NDC and Mr. Mahama were disastrous at even managing an endemic like cholera and eventually ran down the economy of the country and had to turn to the International monetary Fund (IMF) for support without any external shock.
“We were in this country 2013, 2014 when Cholera outbreak hit Ghana, just Cholera, diarrhoea, it killed 213 people. It was under the NDC, John Dramani Mahama and NDC, they couldn’t manage just diarrhoea,” he said in an interview on Dreamz FM on Sunday.
He added, “Why should diarrhoea kill 213 people? If you cannot manage diarrhoea, how do you manage a global pandemic to the scale of Covid-19? One that shook foundations of the universe, broke economies, some economies, up to now, are still in recess, struggling to rebound”.
Were they still at the helm of affairs during the outbreak of the global pandemic, Mustapha believes, the country and its economy would have collapsed.
His comments come at a time the government is seeking debt forgiveness from the Paris Club. The country, in the latter part of last year, turned to the IMF for a bailout after it ran into crisis and had been downgraded by almost all credit rating agencies.
Government blamed the crisis on the COVID-19 outbreak in 2020 and the geopolitical tension between Russia and Ukraine. But the opposition and financial experts disagreed.
According to them, excessive borrowing and reckless spending by the government brought the economy down its kneels.
