Eliminate Bawumia as EMT chair - Mahama to Akufo-Addo
Previous President John Mahama has encouraged President Akufo-Addo to eliminate Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia as seat of the Economic Management group as Ghana goes to the IMF for a bailout program.
Mr Mahama likewise says Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has lost validity and ought not be important for the group to haggle with the IMF in the interest of Ghana.
In a proclamation following government's choice to look for a bailout from the IMF, Mr Mahama said Ghana ought to introduce a local answer for the IMF.
"I invite President Akufo-Addo's choice to draw in the IMF with the view to going into a program under the Fund officially.
"However late, it ought to check a significant stage towards tending to the critical financial circumstance, which has left Ghanaians floundering under extraordinary affliction and difficulties.
"Past the declaration of commitment with the IMF, a thorough local program ought to be designed out and introduced to the Fund for help. It is basic that a group of gifted and skilled mediators is assembled to get the best arrangement of measures with the Fund," Mr Mahama said.
He added: "The Finance Minister who has managed the deplorable breakdown of the economy can't and ought not be essential for the group of mediators. He has lost believability and the trust and certainty of partners in our economy.
"President Akufo-Addo should take a strong choice to supplant his money serve quickly with a more guaranteed and skilled individual who is willing and ready to work eagerly to turn what is happening near.
"Also, given his conspicuous disappointments, the Vice President should be feeling better of his obligation as Chair of the Economic Management Team to empower the President to reconstitute the group.
"We should draw valuable illustrations from this episode and keep away from modest politicking with the economy; that can yield the terrible results that have brought us here".
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