The Minority Leader in Parliament, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson has criticised the outgoing government for what he described as poor governance and mismanagement, drawing from his personal experience in recent times.
According to him, the poor governance and mismanagement led Ghanaians to show the outgoing government the exit in the just-ended presidential and parliamentary elections.
Speaking during the dissolution of the 8th parliament, Dr Forson reflected on the charges brought against him in recent years.
He argued that the tax introduced by the government disrupted the entire concept of digitalisation, thus causing significant upheaval in the country’s economy.
“At the personal level, I have had to pay a heavy price for my stance against the government’s mismanagement, Mr Speaker, my recent prosecution or call it persecution by the Attorney General over frivolous and trumped-up charges was calculated to silence, intimidate, and completely extinguish a known dissenting voice,” he recounted.
He went on to explain, “Mr Speaker, my crime was that I sounded alarm bells on an economy that was being mismanaged and ruined by an act of a select few in government.”
Dr Forson further highlighted that the timing of his prosecution, which began amid the tussle over the E-levy, was not coincidental. He recalled the moment he was accused shortly after the rejection of the E-levy.
“I became an instant target for the regime, Mr Speaker I was charged on Christmas Eve, a few days after the rejection of the E-levy and the 2022 budget,” he recalled.
Additionally, he alleged that the Minister for Justice was determined to use all available strategies to pursue what he termed a “malicious prosecution” in order to satisfy the government.
Dr Forson added, "Never in the history of our nation have we witnessed this level of abrupt professional misconduct on the part of no less a person than the Attorney General and the Minister Responsible for Justice, who is the leader of the bar and bears a high responsibility to adhere to the rules and ethics of the legal profession.”
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