Dr. Mark Assibey-Yeboah, a former chairman of the finance committee of Parliament, has recommended the government to drop several of its most prominent social intervention programs, including as stipends for aspiring teachers and nurses and the school feeding program.
He claimed that the government is not currently carrying out these projects to a sufficient level.
He claims that by abolishing them, he will be able to save the money required to improve the current economic crisis.
He claimed that the Free High School (Free SHS) also required review in addition to the elimination of these programs.
Dr. Assibey Yeboah also stated that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) would probably request that the government abandon or modify some of these schemes before receiving the bailout he seeks from the fund during the Citi TV interview that GhanaWeb was watching.
"Training stipends for teachers and nurses (should be eliminated)..." Although it was a campaign slogan, you did remarkably well considering how many other campaign promises were broken during your first term.
the likes of schools? Therefore, we may partially shape the free SHS. Assibey Yeboah, a former New Patriotic Party (NPP) MP, said: "You have the free SHS bill of GH1.9 billion per year if you can save, say, GH400 million per year, that's big."
The NPP won't suffer any political repercussions from abandoning these programs, he continued, and it will actually help the government restore economic stability.
While negotiating an IMF program, the government has stated that it will defend these social intervention policies.
Abena Osei-Asare, the deputy finance minister, has promised Ghanaians that key social intervention programs and development initiatives won't be impacted in any manner.
She claimed that between 2017 and 2019, the administration expanded the school feeding program while still implementing it as part of an IMF agreement.
Watch the conversation with Dr. Assibey-Yeboah below:
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