Economic figures presented by Bawumia during lecture on economy ‘cooked’ – Isaac Adongo
Member of Parliament (MP) for Bolgatanga Central, Isaac Adongo has said economic figures churned out by the Vice President during his lecture on the economy are cooked and untrue.
Notable among them is the 6.1% average cedi depreciation rate the Akufo-Addo-led government had NPP had achieved as against the 18% deprecation rate under the Mahama-led administration.
Dr. Bawumia on Thursday, April 7, 2022, addressed several issues of the economy while speaking at the National Tertiary Students Confederacy (TESCON) Training and Orientation Conference at Kasoa in the Central Region.
Reacting to the Vice President’s address, Minority MP Isaac Adongo said Dr. Bawumia failed to make any intellectual analysis.
“Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia should now rather be apologizing to Ghanaians. One day he will wake up and realize that there will be no economy for him to speak about.
“I want to tell him, why is it that he was the hero in academic institutions delivering lectures as an elite scholar in Central University and the rest and today he is roaming at Yesukrom in Kasoa? Obviously, he needs Jesus at this point in time,” Isaac Adongo said in an interview.
Unimpressed with the analysis made by Dr. Bawumia, the Bolgatanga central lawmaker further insisted that many of the arguments made by the Vice President would not even be made by a level 100 University student.
“I’m going to speak on the economy not necessarily to counter anything because if you listen to Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia very well, very characteristic of him he doesn’t make any serious intellectual conversation,” he indicated.
The Bolga Central MP bemoaned, “All throughout his analysis you will notice that he has been comparing four years to five years. Not even level 100 students will do that so you know for sure that this is somebody struggling to catch straw. This is the man who says the main reason why food prices are up is because Ghana imports 30% of its wheat requirements from Ukraine.”
