The former President, John Dramani Mahama has said that should another pandemic resurface in the country, it would be a disaster if it catches us unprepared.

Mr Mahama made this statement while speaking at a public lecture to climax his ‘Thank You’ tour on Wednesday.

He said that his outfit is currently working together with an Independent Global Health Panel to deal with any unforeseen pandemic.

“I have advocated for the establishment of a Global Public Health Convention to ensure adequate Pandemic Preparedness and Response,” he said.

The former President also observed that the government has bought the country to its knees in a way that is totally unacceptable.

“The tragedy of our current national situation is that we have a government that appears completely unwilling to acknowledge the problems and even begin the process of addressing them.

“We are instead confronted with an administration that believes that these major problems can be wished away through PR, sloganeering, divisive rhetoric, populism, and plain political deception,” he noted.

“Take our present economic state for example. At a time when everyone is crying out over the excruciating hardships brought on by excessive taxation, ever-increasing cost of living, weekly fuel price increases, this government chooses to recite a hackneyed mantra, that there are indicators that show that the economy is doing well,” he added.

The 2020 Presidential Candidate of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) again criticized the government for failing to address youth unemployment in the country.

Mr Mahama said that it was “heartbreaking and deeply disturbing” for many young people to seek employment with national security agencies.

“Another problem that requires immediate resolution is the explosion in unemployment. The spectre of tens of thousands of frustrated and desperate young men and women, running and falling over themselves to apply for very limited positions in security agencies, as we have recently seen, is most heartbreaking and deeply disturbing. Unemployment has truly become a national security crisis,” the former President stated.

Mr Mahama expressed concerns of hardship he says is being suffered by Ghanaians across facets of the economy.

He, therefore, urged Ghanaians to channel repose confidence in the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the 2024 elections in a bid to alleviate the hardship he says has been wreaked on the country by the current government.