Technical Advisor to the vice president, Dr. Gideon Boako has lambasted the Minority Spokesperson on Finance, Mr Cassiel Ato Baah Forson for comment he described as “needless”.
The minority in Parliament criticised the government for negotiating about $19billion with China, and indicated that the amount which they insist is a loan would plunge the country into a Heavily Indebted Poor Country (HIPC) status.
"It is going to plunge the country into an era of debt distress. We are going to be very stressed as debt is concerned.
"Ghana's GDP is approximated at $45 billion. They are giving us a debt half of the size of the country's economy. Ghana is going to be debt stressed because of this," Mr Cassiel Ato Baah Forson said during a press briefing.
However, on NEAT FM’s morning show ‘Ghana Montie’, Dr. Gideon Boako says it’s rather unfortunate for such comment to be uttered by “someone who was Ghana’s Deputy Finance Minister.”
“Ato Forson is either doing politics with this issue or he is not knowledgeable with issues like this,” he told host Kwesi Aboagye.
Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia led the government team for the $15billion funding partnership agreement and commitment reached between the Government of Ghana and China.
There is an opening for an additional GHc4 billion during his recent visit to that country.
Even though the minority has maintained that the fund is a loan from the Chinese government - Dr. Gideon Boako has emphatically stated that the fund is not a loan but rather a joint business venture between the two countries.
Source: King Edward Ambrose Washman Addo/Peacefmonline/Ghana
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Franlky speaking,an ***barred word*** is not knowledgeable.
Unfortunately, even Ama Sey is in parliament on the ticket of the NPP. Please get education.
This Ato Forson guy will not even qualify as a District Finance Officer under an NPP government.
Even in opposition the NDC is innccompetent. ATO FORSON HAS ALWAYS BEEN AN IIINNCOMPPETENT PERSON SINCE HIS TENURE AS A DEPUTY FINANCE MINISTER. He doesnt speak to the facts which shows how lazzzy he is as a researcher.
Ato Forson, please don't disgrace we your constituents. Don't allow the incompetent NDC to use you to do the dirty work and to endanger your political career. Can't you see that your former boss Seth Terkper is quiet? If you don't have any sensible thing to say just keep mute. A word to the wise....
SO NOW THE ALL KNOWING ECONOMIC WIZARD BARROWMIA HAS AN ADVISER? OH I NEVER KNEW SOMEBODY IS MORE KNOWLEDGEABLE THAN THIS BAWUMIA VEEP. SO IF THIS WEAK MINDED DR.BOAKO IS YOUR ADVISER ON TECHNICAL ECONOMICS THAN GOD HELP US AS A NATION. IT ALSO INDICATES THAT BAWUMIA IS NOT ALL THAT THE ECONOMIC WIZARD THAT THE NPP WOULD WANT US TO BELIEVE. CONCERT PEOPLE.
FR PROVIDER'S POINT OF VIEW, THE NHIS IS THE WORST THING THAT HAPPENED TO GHANA. FROM HEALTH SERVICE IF A CLINIC DOESN'T HAVE NHIS ACCREDITATION, THE SICK DON'T PATRONISE THE CLINIC BUT AS SOON AS THE CLINIC GETS THE ACCREDITATION, THE PATIENTS CONVERGE THERE BUT SADLY, THERE ARE NO FOXED DATES THESE NHIS ACCREDITED CLINICS GET REIMBURSED. THIS IS WHY A DOCTOR FRIEND OF MINE HAS SWORN THAT INSTEAD OF WASTING HIS TIME TO ESTABLISH A PRIVATE CLINIC, HE WOULD RATHER RUN A GOOD CHOP BAR WITH APIO AND ALOMO BITTERS ATTACHED. THE NHIS HAS TOTALLY DISGRACED THE MEDICAL PROFESSION AND IF NOTHING IS DONE TO IMPROVE ITS REIMBURSING, VERY SOON, NO BODY WOULD ATTEND MEDICAL SCHOOL AGAIN. NOW MEDICAL DOCTORS DREAD COMPULSORY RETIREMENT BECAUSE THE NHIS HAS TOTALLY DESTROYED PRIVATE MEDICAL PRACTISE!!!!
SHAME ON YOU. WE ARE IN 2017 SO STOP THOSE COMMENTS.
This Ato Forson guy is just not refusing to learn.He seems not to be abreast with modern financial transactions and trend. Brilliant as he may be. He needs to study issues critically before coming out. He is not making the mark he thinks he is doing. In fact he is being mocked in 'Circles' he is expected to be part of the brains mother Ghana needs to PROGRSS.
Next time go on the same tangent , Forson swine !