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An economist and Lecturer at the Kumasi Polytechnic, Thomas Kusi Boafo, has tasked Ghanaians to start cursing former finance Minister, Dr. Kwabena Duffuor and former Attorney General, Betty Mould Iddrisu for the country’s current economic hardship.

According to him, the two persons despite getting the opportunity to stop the indiscriminate payment of judgment debts to undeserving persons failed to do so thus contributing to the crippling of the nation’s economy.

The Lecturer divulged on Burning Issues Monday that Ghana’s current economic woes began in 2010 when government allocated a whopping over GHC 500 Million for the payment of unbudgeted judgment debt after the first extraction of oil in the country.

The payments, he said was done at the call of the two who were indirect beneficiaries of the payments of these judgement debts. Dr. Kwabena Duffour and Betty Mould Iddrisu were Finance Ministers and Attorney General respectively under the Mills administration. 

“Dr. Duffour has short-changed Ghana, I wonder if he would run his bank and his insurance the same way he run Ghana’s economy. “If there are two individuals I can single out that if anybody has intention to curse into eternity, it should be the two of them…even the next generation should curse the two of them for initiating whatever reckless payment then…,” he said.

He further revealed to show host Afia Pokua that the two collaborated and initiated some of the payments just to enrich themselves.

Mahama’s borrowings.

Thomas Kusi Boafo also revealed that the government of President John Dramani Mahama borrows an amount of Eight Hundred and Eighty Million Cedis weekly. According to the lecturer, he is very surprised with the way the President borrows money from various countries but Ghana is still in economic crises.

“President Mahama borrows an amount of GHS 880 Million a week, just last Friday and Thursday; the government borrowed GHC 1.4 billion through the issuance of a six year bond…,”he said.

Meanwhile, Cassiel Ato Forson, Deputy Minister of Finance debunked the statement made by the lecturer as he thinks he thinks his calculations may be wrong. He was optimistic that Ghana would not return to HIPC as it’s been speculated.