The opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has warned Ghanaians that there will be grave implications for the public purse if the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) is retained in 2024.
Addressing a press conference on Monday, August 30, 2021, to respond to an earlier media engagement by the NPP, NDC Communications Officer, Sammy Gyamfi, said Ghanaians are alarmed by the glaring cases of corruption under the current government and will vote out the NPP in the next general election.
He said when former President John Mahama and the NDC Presidential Candidate for the 2020 elections said recently that Ghanaians were suffering under the current administration, he echoed the sentiments of the vast majority of Ghanaians.
“The alarming case of corruption under this government is such that Ghanaians cannot wait to exact act accountability by voting out the NPP after their eight-year tenure in 2024.
“Anything short if that will spell doom for the public purse which will be subjected to further abuse should their mandates be renewed beyond 2024,†he said.
According to Sammy Gyamfi, the huge debts being piled up by the Nana Akufo-Addo-led administration will spell doom for the country’s fortunes if a competent government is not voted to replace them.
"The excessive and reckless borrowing of the Akufo-Addo/Bawumia government has ensured that we are barely able to service our debts, pay the salary of Public sector workers and have anything significant left to meet critical expenditure.
That is why over half a dozen different taxes were introduced in the 2021 budget alone to plug the hole they have created in the economy," he said.
According to him, these taxes coupled with other bad policies of the government have conspired to increase prices of fuel, food commodities, building materials and cost of living in general to unbearable proportions without any commensurate increment in incomes.