He said the government should be transparent about the underlying issues to get the necessary support to bring the economy back on track.
Mahama said former Chief Justice Sophia Akufo made several calls for dialogue and national consensus on the economic program as the country plunged into an economic abyss, affected by the inclusion of pensioners in the domestic debt swap programme.
He said the arrogance and callousness of Nana Addora and the incompetence of Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta and the economic management team have led the country to this state.
In a Facebook post, Mahama said we could have forged a broad non-partisan consensus on the IMF bailout and accompanying debt restructuring program, adding that it was too late to get the country out of the financial mess.
Sophia Akufo said the inclusion of the elderly in the loan exchange program was very sensible on the part of the NPP administration.
Speaking to reporters after joining a picketing of some pensioners at the Finance Ministry, he said: “I think it’s evil; I think it’s disrespectful; I think it’s illegal; I think it’s completely wrong. Period. Because you don’t solve your problems by sacrificing your age. This is the last thing you should do when we don’t have any services specially geared for the comfort and relief of the elderly.”
Although he is not impressed by the government’s DDEP, he said it is evil for the government to sacrifice the benefits of retirees – people who have sacrificed for Ghana, to be able to solve its own problems in management. Economy.