Vice Presidential Candidate of the New Patriotic Party, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, is to delivering a lecture on the Ghanaian economy.

The programme which is taking place at the National Theatre would see the economist make a diagnosis of the challenges in the economy and proffer possible solutions.

The lecture would be chaired by former President John Agyekum Kufuor under the theme “The State of the Ghana Economy – A Foundation of Concrete or Straw.”

Lectures be based on objective analysis of the data and the data and the facts will speak for themselves... 

John Mahama said to whom much is given much is expected. Borrowing from that the performance of government in the last eight years

-He measures the dollar alongside the cedi and said there was a lot of revenue at the disposal of the Mahama administration from 2009-2016. 

-Bawumia says New Patriotic Party (NPP) taxes and loans amounted GH¢20 billion in contrast over the last eight years amount to GH¢248 billion. 

-He Mills-Mahama government have the nominal resources the NPP had but have made less impacted on the economy

-In the real sector, the Gross Domestic Product has seen a decline 

- Ghana's problem is not about resources but efficient management of the resources 

- Increase in minimum wage under Kufour's administration 

-Data shows National Income increasing under Kufour and people were happy as those at the bottom of the income scale had a life unlike during the Mill-Mahama administration. Worst decline was the tenure of Mahama as president. 

-Ghana made in terms of Human Development index was 1.33 which has now fallen to 1.13 during the Mahama administration 

- Reckless increase in public expenditure by the Mahama administration added to Ghana asking for IMF bailout

- Taxes on business has increased in a bid for the government to make up for their reckless spending. 

- Government cutting and abolishing all forms of allowances such as research allowances, teacher training allowance etc

- Accumulating arrears to contractors and others

-There was a clear expectation of decline in GDP ratio by the IMF but there has not been any fiscal deficit reduction  

-Ghana's fiscal consolidation is taking place in high inflation level, state enterprise debt, owing companies like BOST, uncontrolled microfinance companies which can collapse banking sector

-Ghanaian experience is exact opposite of fiscal consolidation

-If this is indeed happening there should be an improvement in credit rating etc

-Fiscal data of 2015 is yet to be reconciled meaning asking what is complicated about it. The fiscal data that the government presented showed an opposite picture. 

- Arrears accumulation about rising nonperforming loans due to debt to be paid to public institution like ECG, VRA

- Public debt stock

-Ghana's debt moved from GH¢9.5 billion - 100 billion in 2015 105 by May 2016

- 66 percent of Ghana's debt from independence has been accumulated by John Mahama in the last three years. 

- $39 billion borrowed by government so far

- $42 billion would have been borrowed by December but government will claim a book value is $26 million as they will be applying the current exchange rate and not at the time the money was borrowed. 

- Cedi worst-performing in the world which had good exchange rate during the NPP era

- The entire allocation to the ministry of roads, food agriculture and all the six ministries was only GH¢2.1 billion 2016 as compared to GH¢10.5 billion cedis interest payment on debts paid by government.

- Generation shortfalls in the power and energy sector due to corrupt management, unstainable debt,

- Akosombo over drafted and can't support the pressure on it anymore

- All plants are performing below capacity

- Ghana needs a long term energy security to be taken seriously

- The industrialisation agenda of Ghana is under threat with such energy management

- Dumsor and its related woes have made businesses move to neighbouring Ivory Coast

- Problem in the power sector is a financial one but government is not forthright about it

Banking

- Public institutions indebted to banks, which will require management to forestall explosion

- Microfinance not being monitored or regulated

- No policy credibility by government with the recent Eurobond issue is an example which shows investors losing confidence 

Related: Ghana spends more on servicing debts than on infrastructure – Bawumia

Related: Minimum Wage, Per Capita Income decline under Mahama administration – Bawumia reveals

Related: Dr Bawumia crashes NDC economic record, calls it wasteful gov't ever

 

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