The Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong, has come under fire over his latest remarks calling on the Vice President, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, over the country' s economic woes.
The outspoken MP who is vying for presidential candidate position and in a race with Bawumia and eight others, has been hitting hard at the Vice President.
Bawumia, seen as the main frontrunner has the support of many MPs, a number of whom have been accompanying him on his campaigns across the country.
Four of such pro- Bawumia MPs have hit back at Kennedy Agyapong explaining that his attack on the Vice President was untenable and unwarranted given that the economic woes were brought on by external factors.
Ghana is currently under an International Monetary Fund programme that is meant to bring in US$3 billion at the end of three years. The first tranche of US$600 million was released ealier this year with other tranches set to be released.
The four MPs include Andrew Egyapa Mercer, MP for Sekondi who said, " If you are measuring him you need to start from 2017 and 2018 to date. "
He said that the Vice President had no hand in global economic factors that led to the crash of the economy.
Also is Kwabena Okyere Darko- Mensah, MP for Takoradi, who insisted that the economic shambles was brought about by COVID and that fact has been established by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) which is currently giving Ghana a bailout.
The third is Kofi Amankwa- Manu, Atwima- Kwanwoma Constituency, who said all New Patriotic Party (NPP) MPs who voted for different revenue measures aimed at securing the bailout deal cannot turn around to blame Bawumia who is not an MP.
" If you opposed our IMF approach, you would have voted against it, is that not the case? " he asked.
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