The decision to seek an International Monetary Fund (IMF)-supported programme cannot be blamed on the government, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said.
He said while a section of the public blamed the government for mismanaging the economy, the situation was way beyond the making of the government, as it was occasioned by current global crises which had not spared other economies around the world.
In fact, the big difference that we are having in Ghana today and why we have gone back to the IMF is that everybody recognises it is not as a result of my mismanagement, as was the case during the tenure of the previous government.
“The reality is that there are global inflation, high commodity prices, among others, and all these have been the principal reasons for the difficulties we are having as a country,” he said. President Akufo-Addo said this in an interview with Damongo-based PAD FM in the Savannah Region yesterday as part of his two-day tour of the region.
Notwithstanding the challenges, he indicated that the government was determined to find a solution to the situation to help bring relief to the citizenry.
