Ranking Member on Parliament’s Finance Committee, Isaac Adongo, has blamed Ghana’s plummeting economy on lack of focus by the Head of the Economic Management Team (EMT).
He says the Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia, who was propagated as an ‘Economic Messiah’ has now veered into a supposed digitalisation drive after realising the sector he was touted as a colossus failed.
Speaking on Maakye on Onua TV Thursday, March 21, 2023, the Member of Parliament for Bolgatanga Central, likened Bawumia to a Science teacher whose students were failing until it was discovered that he rather teaches the students History and Geography instead of Science.
“You know Wesley Girls is one of the best schools in the country and when it comes to Science, they are so good. So we were told there is this tried and tested Science teacher who is so good that when we send him to Wesley Girls’ SHS, the students will perform wonderfully. Then we send this teacher and year after year, the students were failing whenever the results come. So, the Education Director secretly went to hide and peeped through the window to see what he was teaching, only to realise the teacher rather teaches the kids History and Geography instead of Science. So Bawumia is now teaching Geography and History and after failing in Science, he now wants to align himself with anything he sees around and messes up.
“You were brought to come and fix a broken economy but you’re now doing digitalisation,” Isaac Adongo told Captain Smart in Twi.
The MP who is also a member of Parliament’s Trade and Industry Committee indicated on the show that the infamous guinea fowl scandal under the then Savanna Accelerated Development Authority (SADA) was a mere creation to tarnish the reputation of John Dramani Mahama and the National Democratic Congress.
“You don’t just believe the frog when it comes out of the water to tell you the crocodile is dead. For all you know it ran from a feud between the two.
“The guinea fowl story was concocted by someone to disgrace Mahama but you journalists believed without making any probe. It is the same way you believed the donkeys carrying fertilizer story. You didn’t ask the Minister of Agric why he lied about the donkey,” he said.
Speaking on the prospects of the economy upon assumption of power by National Democratic Congress (NDC), Isaac Adongo noted that John Mahama’s 24-hour economy was the game-changer which will come and change the lives of Ghanaians.