Former Minister of Finance and Economic Planning Professor Kwesi Botchwey says Ghana’s current economy is showing a semblance of what pertained in the early 1980s.
That period witnessed one of the hardest times including a near famine in the country.
Speaking at the launch of ‘The Children of House No. D13, South Suntreso Kumasi’, a book jointly authored by the Ahwois, Prof Botchwey said: “Sadly, we don’t appear to have learnt our lessons [and] are moving now so perilously close to the edge of the precipice, where we were in the early 80s with our economy saddled with debts.”
A Former Finance Minister, Kwesi Botchwey describes current economic challenges as reminiscent to 1980's.#3NewsGH pic.twitter.com/q78wTfb93j
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Source: 3news.com
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Are we queing as at that time with control prices by the government then. Though the country is hard is it not better than the 1980s you are talking about. What happened after the period, you called yourselves saviours but your are all living like billionaires and sold properties that Nkrumah built to curtail unemployment and develop the nation.
Aren't Ghanaians tired of people like Kwesi Botchway? He should give us a break! What at all did he achieve in his several years in office as finance minister? Was not IMF, SAP, PAMSCAD etc. etc.? At the end of it all, was Ghana not declared a HIPC country? So what is he talking about?