The Deputy Communications Director of the NPP, Kamal Deen Abdulai, has stated that Ghana is not the only country facing economic hardships.

According to him, the entire world is facing economic difficulties and that, anywhere in the universe where government, leadership and managers of various economies exist, there is economic struggle.

However, Kamal stated that this should not be a justification for the country’s current economic canker.

He indicated that the nation had already gone through series of hardships during the regime of the late J. J. Rawlings, stating clearly that he was not comparing military rule to democratic rule.

“I am not comparing military rule to a democratic rule, I am comparing head of states, whether military or democratic there is a head of state and the country and the economy is being managed.”
Kamal Deen Abdulai

Speaking on the New Day show, Abdulai argued that the conditions then and now were politically different but economically the same. He admitted that it is the job of the finance minister to fix the issues which the government is currently working on.

“It is his job to fix it and we are on it and making sure… that not by our might, Ghana is going to pick up again big time.”
Kamal Deen Abdulai

The communications officer further stated that the finance minister was not the first person to say that he was not going to the IMF. He noted that former President John Dramani Mahama also made the same statement on live tv and ended up going to the IMF. He said he was only supporting this claim made by the finance minister by referencing the former President.

He declared that the current issues and hardships are not new to the people of Ghana.

Attempts to globalize their bad governance is sometimes mind boggling

Also speaking on the show, Abraham Amaliba, a member of the NDC legal team, stated that the attempts of the current government to blame its inability to govern on globalization is overwhelming. He also noted the fact that government always tells Ghanaians that the economic crises are happening everywhere sounded astounding.

The election of a government into power to solve problems is not a walk in the park, he said, adding that if there were no problems to be solved, government would not be in existence. He however, noted that the government did not understand this fact.

The member of the NDC legal team said that he did not expect any government official to complain about the current issues.

“I don’t expect a government official to come unto the program and be lamenting to me, I don’t expect a government official to come unto the program and simply acknowledge the problems and say that we should clap for him.”
Abraham Amaliba

Amaliba also made reference to the action taken by the shortest- lived UK Prime Minister, Liz Truss, who fired her finance minister to avert their problems, indicating that the Prime Minister’s behavior towards the issue was that of a “serious minded person.”

Commenting on the drastic depreciation of the cedi, Abraham noted that the Cedi is “the most disgraceful currency in the world” just like “toilet paper.”