The former Minister for Gender, Children, and Social Protection, Nana Oye Lithur, has lashed out at the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government for not crediting the National Democratic Congress (NDC) led government in the 2018 budget statement on the macro economic performance of the country.
She said the robust performance of the economy is as a result of the prudent economic decisions made by the previous NDC economic management team.
“Under no imaginable circumstance can the NPP government claim that they have achieved this wonderful macroeconomic performance. A significant amount of this credit should go to the NDC government. It should go to Seth Tekper, Mona, Ato Forson, John Mahama, and the NDC economic management team”, she said.
She made this statement as a panel member on Joy FM’, News File last Saturday.
The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta, in presenting the 2018 budget statement on Wednesday, said government had restored macroeconomic stability, which eventually strengthened the value of money in the pockets of Ghanaians and also gave businesses the predictability space to plan and invest, thereby sowing the seeds for economic growth and job creation.
He said interest rates in 2017 continued to decline in response to the improvement in the macroeconomic fundamentals, easing inflation and exchange rate stability.
However, Nana Oye Lithur is of the conviction that the interest rate started declining in the first quarter of 2015 when NDC was in power, and that it fell from 26.32% to 18.5%, a difference of 8.8%.
“During NPP time it has fallen from 18.5% to 14.1%, a difference of 4.4% so who has done better? What Ken Ofori Atta did was to read a ‘victors’ speech. When you talk about the 2017 sector growth for industry; it was 17.7%. It is attributable to the oil and gas and that is even upstream. So what is the actual impact on the lives of the people and what did he do as a Minister? We implemented the FPSO Kuffour so he cannot claim this 17.7% growth as if he has done something”, she stressed.
According to her, the 2018 budget does not address the current socio-economic challenges facing the country, and further noted that it offers no hope for Ghanaians.
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These people have no shame. Their politics is disjointed to say the least. She wants to make herself relevant to Ghanaian politics. As a family they have ripped Ghana off. The role her husband played in the election petition et al. She should just allow the system to work and will definitely see the year on year improvements that will be chalked by this administration. Meanwhile she can go chopping the fruits of their exploits.
Ahhhh, ah, ah NDC 'koraaa' eden na yen ye no'? When thing do not go well, they say NPP is not doing well. When NPP do them well, they say it was NDC. AAAAABA!
Oye Lithur eeei, my wife got pregnant last two months. I give all the credit to the NDC for their excellent impregnation capacity. Funny bunch of confused and dazed politicians.
I hope viewers took notice of how the director of budgets and oye lithur spok. oye typified how aggressive ndc conduct themselves when given chance to debate matters or give opinions. oye lithur was ranting and raging whereas the director was calm and gentle. this is how women should behave. let me ask mrs lithur (the fatty), if upon all your assertions that the economic gains are npp claiming were down to ndc, why were you given such a beating at the 2016 elections? you wait nana is waiting for you guy, it will be worst in 2020.
i thought this woman is suppose to be a lawyer. has she forgotten her brain in her car? are they (ndc) not the same ple predicting that there will be economic hardship next year? they dont want to blamed for their mismanagement yet they want to take the glory for someone's hardwork.
One ug.ly educated lawyer !!!