Get Your Notes & Pens Ready - Allotey Jacobs Tells NDC As 'Shock Absorber' Bawumia Readies To Speak Today
Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia is set to speak to the nation today.
The Vice President, who is the Head of the Economic Management Team, will be making the presentation on the economy as the main speaker at a National Tertiary Students Confederacy (TESCON) Training and Orientation Conference - a gathering of tertiary students of the students' wing of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), at Kasoa in the Central region.
The event is under the auspices of the NPP Youth Wing in collaboration with the Danquah Institute, a policy Think-Tank.
The much-awaited address will focus on pertinent issues in Ghana’s economy as well as plans to bring it back on its feet.
'I've Not Left The Economics Behind'
Dr Bawumia has been accused of abandoning the economy at a time he is needed the most. According to the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), he had gone comatose.
However, Bawumia's initial response to critics was that: I haven't abandoned the economy...
" . . sometimes people say, well, we thought you were an Economist, but you’re doing so much in IT space. Have you left economics behind? No, no, not at all. In fact, it is because of the economy that I’m focusing on digitising because without building those pillars, our economy will just not be able to stand on its own feet. We need to build those pillars to allow all our sectors in the economy to be able to compete and so we decided to address some of the major bottlenecks that businesses face in the Agric sector through digitalisation.”
Bawumia Today
Today's presentation is expected to somehow bring finality, clarity and at the same time emphasize on government's comprehensive plans to resolve the economic challenges.
Social commentator, Bernard Allotey Jacobs reacting to this during a panel discussion on Peace FM's morning show 'Kokrokoo', said Bawumia's 'sneeze will let the NDC catch a cold' today.
According to him, "my man; the very young man I adore so much; Dr Mahamudu Bawumia will speak . . . he is like a shock absorber, able to absorb all shocks and so my next-door neighbours should get ready with their notes and pens . . . "
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