Former President John Dramani Mahama has launched a parody on Vice-President Mahamudu Bawumia, mocking the head of Ghana’s Economic Management Team (EMT)as a victim of his own arrogance.
While addressing members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Tertiary Education and Institutions Network (TEIN) during the launch of an App at the University of Professional Studies, Mr. Mahama sneered at Dr. Bawumia who boasted a couple of years ago that the government had arrested the depreciation of the cedi and given the keys to the Police Boss.
“Daily price increases, fuel price adjustments and nose-diving currency which has rather arrested the person who said he had arrested it. The dollar has rather arrested him. So we are looking for him we can’t find him. We will ask the IGP if he has the key so that we could find where our Vice President was,” Mr. Mahama said.
Recently, the cedi has been taking a pummeling like never before, almost free-falling from a little over Ghc5 to a dollar in December 2021 to about Ghc7 to a dollar in March.
Amidst serious economic hardships brought on by mismanagement and corruption, the Vice President who is supposed to be the head of the government’s economic management team has remained uncharacteristically quiet as critics wonder why he has been missing in action.
Former President Mahama thinks Bawumaia can’t boast anymore due to the embarrassment of his failure as the head of the Economic Management Team.
“We are gathered at the time when our country is facing economic and social hardship, the Akufo-Addo led government that came to power on the back of mouth-watering promises to make life better for Ghanaians and ensure rapid development of our country has so badly mismanaged the economy that we have been plunged into the most debilitating economic crisis in our four decades,” Mahama observed.
“Indeed, we all recollect those mouth-watering promises including one by the current President to transform this country Ghana within 18 months,” he added.