The Minority leader Osei Kyei
Mensah-Bonsus has called on all Ghanaians to help save ‘Ghana’s sinking’ ship
which he said would disappear soon if urgent efforts are not made to rescue it.
The Minority Leader while winding up
debate for the approval of the 2015 budget mentioned excessive borrowing,
depreciating of the cedi and poor economic growth in various sectors of the
economy as the ‘sea’ sinking the Ghanaian ship.
“Fellow Ghanaians let us all come
together to rescue this sinking ship, as clearly a sinking fund cannot do
it. Let us all roll up our sleeves and put our shoulders to the wheel
especially since both the driver and the mate have clearly indicated to all of
us that they are clueless in the face of such gargantuan maladministration”.
He further claimed that the
country’s debt stock has ballooned to over GHC 80 billion making every Ghanaian
including the unborn owes a whopping GHC 3,500.
“…If these are added we probably
shall be talking about a debt stock of close to GH¢80billion. Even at
GH¢70billion it means each Ghanaian, including the child delivered as I speak
now, owes GH¢3,500.ØØ…,” he said.
The Majority Leader Alban Sumana
Bagbin however said the government finds itself on this huge debt because of
the presence of many projects started by the NPP government without a known
source of funding, causing the NDC government has to borrow to complete these
projects.
Source: Ghana | adomonline.com | KWAKU NTI | e-mail:
frank.nti@adomonline.com | follow: @NanaKwakuNti
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