Former president John Dramani Mahama has commented on the current economic crisis the country is facing.
He believes that the country’s fiscal space will be severely restricted for any incoming government after the 2024 elections.
“I know that if we do come into office in 2025, the fiscal space is going to be very narrow because of the economic crisis in which we are. And so, I do think that the next phase we should look at is a change in our governance system,” he said in an interview over the weekend.
He continued by outlining a number of processes that can help the economy for the new government.
“A review of our constitution, a strong fight against corruption, those are the kinds of things young people are looking for, but at the same time raising investments and putting them in areas where young people can get opportunity to develop their full potential.
“And so, I think that would be the agenda for the next NDC administration. It might be me, it might be one of our members,” he stressed.
Mahama also explained the importance of infrastructure as shown by the last NDC government. Asked what new he would do when he finds himself in office again, he responded:
“I keep getting asked this question a lot of time, we did a lot in our time and at the time our focus was in infrastructure,” he said adding that because of degraded infrastructure, the NDC built roads, interchanges, airport terminals, habours, schools, hospitals, clinics etc.
Ghana is currently engaging the Fund for a $3 billion loan facility to complement its economic mix which was worsened by the two events even though the opposition blames mismanagement of the economy for the downturn.
Source: ghanaweb.com
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Ah oyiwa. The excuses for non performance have already started. What’s happening to the redemption song. Asem be ba dabi
Anti corruption President Mahama! What about the air bus official 1 that Martin Amidu pointed to you as the culprit. I maintain this notion that the NDC will regret for making the former President their presidential candidate for 2024. Bawumia will beat him easily despite the economic situation we are in.
Hahahaaaa, (the forest was shrinking but the trees kept voting for the Axe, for the Axe was clever and convinced the trees that because his handle was made of wood, he was one of them) . This is exactly what is happening between Ghanaian voters and the country's so called politicians. The so called politicians say because we are Ghanaians voters for us, meanwhile what belongs to the masses finds it's way into the pockets of the very people they elected to serve them . You leave your goats with hyenas and later come to blame the hyenas that your goats cannot be found. You entrust national resources to 'hungry men' , hahahaaaa. You will only meet empty coffers