Bawumia Was Part Of A Gang That Held Ghana’s Economy To Hostage

A member of the National

Reform

Party, Dr. David Percy says the

New Patriotic Party (NPP) 2012

running mate, Dr. Mahamudu

Bawumia and his party are to

blame for the country’s ailing

economy.

A lecture delivered in May at the

‘Distinguished Speaker Series’

organized by the Central

University College in Accra, Dr

Bawumia said the Ghanaian

economy is in crisis making

reference to high inflation,

double

digit budget deficit, depreciation

of the cedi, and the general lack

of

growth in the economy.

Speaking at the same platform

June 3, a former Finance

Minister,

Prof. Kwesi Botchwey, agreed

with

some of Dr. Bawumia’s

assessment of the economy

which

received media attention and

scrutiny.

”Mahamudu is a young man

whose professional credentials I

particularly respect; I offer no

rebuttals (to his lecture). On the

contrary, I do agree with much

of

what he said.”

But Dr. David Percy believes the

wounds left behind by the

landmark 2012 election petition

case cannot be ruled out of the

current state of the country’s

economy.

According to him, the election

petition case brought the

country’s economic

development

to a standstill as investors were

unwilling to invest money into

the

economy.

“Dr. Bawumia was part of a

gang

that held Ghana’s economy to

hostage. If you do that, all the

things that he predicted will

come

true. And that’s what the NPP

and

its surrogates have spent time

doing…promoting uncertainty

about the economy, promoting

capital flight and promoting the

postponement of investment

decisions.”

“…If your entire political stock

in

trade is about promoting

uncertainty and running the

country down, it doesn’t take

really much…He (Dr. Bawumia)

and his team (NPP) were

working

day and night to drive the

economy aground. So it didn’t

take a prophet to say where we

were going,” he bewailed.

Dr. David Percy is however,

urging

government and other

stakeholders to as a matter of

urgency put in place measures

that will put the country’s

economy in the hands of

Ghanaians for accelerated

development.

He spoke on Radio Gold’s

current

affairs programme, Alhaji and

Alhaji with Alhassan Suhuyini ,

Saturday.

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