Franklin Cudjoe and Akufo-Addo
The Founder of IMANI Africa, Franklin Cudjoe has said President Akufo-Addo failed monumentally in addressing illegal mining also known as galamsey in the country after putting on the line against the menace.
His comment is in reference to comment by President Akufo-Addo that he has delivered on his mandate adding that he did not betray Ghanaians.
In Facebook post on Sunday (1 September) Cudjoe said ” Sorry, Sir, you failed monumentally. You promised to put your presidency on the line to fight galamsey. ”
Below is the full post:
Sorry, Sir, you failed monumentally. You promised to put your presidency on the line to fight galamsey.
You failed! You wasted almost all the gains from $13bn investment ( the highest Foreign Direct Investment made by any president in the fourth republic) made by your predecessor John Mahama in the oil and energy sectors mostly on vanity projects, got badly exposed by covid-19, borrowed billions into an a debt iceberg forced us into a reckless debt exchange programme by giving us wicked financial haircuts while taxing us into penury.
In the process you shackled nearly a million into deeper poverty adding to the highest unemployment rate in the fourth republic.
The end result was a jerky highspeed journey to the IMF with deep wounds of a junk economy that had inflation at 54% at a point, dizzying interest rates and a runaway forex rate four times what it was in 2016.
I still maintain you should have made one of the few good decisions you made recently earlier- the appointment of Dr. Mohammed Amin Adam as Finance Minister.
