Ofori-Atta falls on own ‘sword’ as Ghana makes U-Turn to IMF
Ghana is heading to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for support despite repeated assurances given by the Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta that the country would not return to the Bretton Woods institution.
On Friday July 1, the Ministry of Information reported in an explanation that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has trained Mr Ofori-Atta to begin formal commitment with the IMF, welcoming the Fund to help a monetary program set up by the Government of Ghana.
This followed a phone discussion between the President and the IMF Managing Director, Miss Kristalina Georgieva, passing Ghana's choice on to draw in with the Fund.
This improvement comes after the Mr Ofori-Atta eagerly expressed on a few events that Ghana was not getting back to the IMF.
It is reviewed that a few investigators including Chief Operations Officer at Dalex Finance Mr Joe Jackson had approached Ghana to go to the IMF.
Mr Jackson contended that the nation wouldn't have the option to determine its monetary difficulties without going for the help.
Talking in interview with TV3's Komla Adom on the early afternoon news on Tuesday June 21, Mr Jackson said "I think the IMF is the most choice to check the abundances we face.
"Our spending plan shortfall is immense, there is no monetary space, we want the IMF to help us with the goal that the unfamiliar business sectors and the progression of assets will be kept up with. I sincerely fail to understand how we will get round this without going to the IMF."
Another financial expert, Dr Adu Sarkodie likewise noticed that Ghana was probably going to get back to the IMF.
He said in the event that this at long last occurs, it would influence a portion of government's projects like the free Senior High School, Nation Builders Corps (NABCO) and others.
"We are probably going to return to the IMF. I could do without it when we go there on account of the contingency. They might request that we drop Free SHS, NABCO, and all that however this is the time we really want this large number of social intercessions," Dr Adu Sarkodie told 3FM on Thursday June 16.
However, in the perspective on Mr Ofori-Atta, the government had set up measures including pay cuts and others, and furthermore projects to manage the central issues influencing the economy consequently no re-visitation of the IMF.
He said these when he was found out if Ghana would think about returning to the IMF, at a public interview in Accra on Thursday May 12
Ghana is heading to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for support despite repeated assurances given by the Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta that the country would not return to the Bretton Woods institution.
He said while addressing the inquiry that "Every one of the white people are simply keen on us coming in the IMF program. I generally can't help thinking about why."
"We are individuals from the asset; there are two significant marks of intercessions that we have from the asset. One being the inform that we get on the grounds that with respect to the amazing skill that the asset has and afterward besides, these program intercessions which present to us a few assets.
Preceding this, he had demonstrated the choice not to go the IMF during the Townhall gatherings on the e-demand.
Talking at the third Townhall meeting on Thursday February 10, at the Radache Hotel in Tamale in the Northern Region, he showed that a re-visitation of the IMF would have critical outcomes.
"I can tell you, as my partner agent said, we are not returning to the IMF, anything we do we are not [going back]. The results are desperate, we are a glad country, we have the assets , we have that limit, don't allow anyone to tell you … we are not individuals of silly, we want to continue on," Mr Ofori-Atta said.
A few financial experts likewise advised against going to the IMF for help.
For example, an Economist, Dr David Yaw Mordy, asked Ghana not to engage the thought.
He said the IMF ordinarily gives conditionalities that are not great for the normal Ghanaian consequently, the chiefs of the economy ought not be considering going to them for help.
Dr Mordy made sense of on the early afternoon news on 3FM with Eric Mawuena Egbeta, Monday June 27 that nations go to the IMF for strategy believability.
That validity, he said, can be acquired without the help of the Bretton Woods establishment.
"The issue has to do with the basics of our economy as for the conversion standard, Gross Domestic Product, expansion and afterward different pointers especially expansion, and GDP is prospering and we are inside the scope of 3.3 to 4 percent, expansion around 27% to 30 percent.
"So things are exceptionally hard in Ghana however that doesn't imply that we ought to select IMF. We know, IMF accompanies a ton of conditionalities , the conditionalities are not positive for the customary Ghanaian. So the IMF ought not be essential for the situation.
"We go to the IMF for strategy believability. Assuming that in 2020 you have overspent, the next year you attempt to downsize it. We have made the law, Fiscal Responsibility Act which commands you to be inside a specific limit. You should simply to diminish you utilization use ,and grow your capital venture, that is the main way we can resolve the key issues in the economy," he said.
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