The Member of Parliament for North Tongu Constituency, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa has taken to his social media page to outline some practical steps President Akufo-Addo should have announced to revive Ghana collapsing economy.
For the former Deputy Education Minister, these 15 practical steps could have gotten celebration from Ghanaians if President Akufo-Addo had announced them in his Address To The Nation on the Economy today:
Read his points:
Just imagine how President Akufo-Addo would have been celebrated by Ghanaians tonight if he said the following:
1. I am sorry for the economic difficulties I have imposed on you;
2. I have with immediate effect fired Ken Ofori-Atta and Charles Adu Boahen;
3. I am reducing the size of my government by 40%;
4. I am slashing taxes on petroleum products;
5. I am instituting regular meetings with Ghana’s only 2 surviving former Presidents: President Kufuor and President Mahama to share their rich experiences and insights with me as we navigate this crisis;
6. I publicly commit not to charter a €20,000 an hour luxury jet for the rest of my term;
7. I suspend all ex-gratia payments and would be reviewing Article 71 together with comprehensive constitutional amendments;
8. My Cathedral Project is hereby suspended;
9. I am establishing a special task force to assist the Auditor-General in retrieving the billions of Ghana Cedis misappropriated by public officials;
10. I will revive TOR within the next 6 months so we can refine our own crude, attain better fuel prices on the domestic market and create more jobs;
11. I am initiating steps to build our own gold refinery;
12. I have requested all retirees to go home in order to create hundreds of jobs for the youth;
13. I am initiating steps to renegotiate all existing contracts in the extractive sector;
14. I have dissolved the Economic Management Team and would be reconstituting a new one to feature prominent Ghanaians regardless of how critical they have been of my leadership. I shall reach out to Kwame Pianim, Sam Jonah, Dr. Kwesi Botchwey, Prof. Godfred Bokpin, and a host of others;
15. I shall comply with Article 36(5) of the 1992 Constitution and present my vision and coordinated programme to Parliament this week;
