‘Breaking the 8 is a euphemism for corruption, big debts’ – Dr. Amoah -Nduom Rubbishes “Ghana Beyond AID”

Renowned economist and businessman Dr. Kofi Amoah has sarcastically implied that if the ruling NPP is retained in office after a second term, all that Ghanaians will get is more hardship more corruption and more impunity.

In a post, he retorts that the NPP’s “breaking the 8” mantra is a code for more unemployment, corruption, and excessive borrowing.

“Breaking the 8 is a euphemism for corruption, big debts, importation, joblessness, and impunity to continue,” he tweeted on Monday.

He added, “The misgovernance has caused hardships on all citizens, with severe increases in the cost of living across board n return to IMF. GH (Ghana) must reject the NPP/NDC unhealthy duopoly”.

Dr. Amoah’s comments come on the back of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo saying that ‘Breaking the 8’ will be the last great political feat of his career.

“I want to end by making one appeal, I want you to help me to achieve the last great political feat of my career in Ghanaian politics, that on January 7 2025, I will go to Black Star Square and hand over the baton to our next NPP President of the Republic who we would have chosen, supported and brought to victory,” Akufo-Addo said over the weekend.

“Victory in 2024, that is our goal, that is our task and that by the Grace of God, we will achieve,” he stressed while addressing party faithful who had gathered at the University of Professional Studies, Accra (UPSA).

The Akufo Addo administration is tipped as the most corrupt in the history of Ghana and has supervised the complete collapse of the economy which has necessitated its running to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for a bailout programme.

Meanwhile, the founder of the Progressive Peoples Party (PPP), Dr. Paa Kwesi Nduoum, has written an open letter to President Akufo-Addo in which he expresses lament that the government’s mantra – “Ghana Beyond Aid” is fading into the quiet.

In the open letter, Dr. Nduoum who is also an entrepreneur points out that it is not only that the mantra is fading from public speeches and policy documents such as the national budget, but that the necessary effort needed to achieve the outlook of the mantra is also not being made by the government.

“Recently though, the vision seems to be fading and does not find expression in formal presentations such as the budget and your own speeches at home and abroad. It is time to light some fire under this vision and make it real,” said Nduom.

According to Dr, Nduoum, he fears the vision will go the way of many mantras that ended up nowhere after governments had pushed them.