John Mahama
Former President John Mahama has taken a swipe at the government seeking to present its management as a failed task.
Unfortunately, however, his remarks do not reflect the realities on the ground. In his heart of hearts, this gentleman understands the dire state of the global economy of which Ghana is a part. COVID-19 and multitude of variables have accounted for the situation in which the economy finds itself today.
While we would have preferred not to compare our situation with other parts of the world, it is a fact that we cannot do so because the fallouts from the other hemisphere occasioned by an unusual pandemic must affect us by all means. The global village has an intertwining economy; what affects one touches the rest directly or indirectly.
In Australia, petrol prices have hit 14-year highs and in the United Kingdom, the Daily Express in its Friday, February 4, 2022 issue, reports that ‘Cost Of Living Crisis As Energy Bills Soar And Interest Rates Rise’: TIGHTEN YOUR BELTS…BRITAIN IN GRIP OF BIGGEST SQUEEZE EVER.
When oil producers decide to reduce or increase production, we know the positive or negative effects of such actions on the global village.
Energy politics, especially as being played out in the matter of Russia and Europe, is already creating ripples on the world scene its fallouts on the stock market all too clear.
To pretend that we are independent of such developments and deny that COVID-19 and other global factors have not touched us in one way or the other, is to display hypocrisy of the highest order.
There is no doubt that the former President does not understand the realities on the ground and the fact that those at the helm currently are better managers of the economy that his team.
In his latest commentary on the state of the country, he seeks to present a Ghana on the verge of collapse and even recommending what he did when during his tenure, he faced a crisis.
The country’s economy is not on the verge of collapse, not at all. There were no layoffs even at the peak of the pandemic and the free SHS has continued to operate without signs of breaking.
We are at a loss for words to describe what he is trying to tell Ghanaians. At the time he exited the seat of government, the country was close to an economic precipice and he knew it.
What wherewithal did he exhibit which could not save the country from the dire state in which it was when he was president? He was booted out by Ghanaians because they found him incompetent.
Some Ghanaians might suffer a certain degree of amnesia but that number is minimal. Most of us however, understand all too well that the Ghana we endured under the NDC, and especially John Dramani Mahama, was one characterised by motley challenges in all departments of our national life.