The government has fired back the members of the Coalition for Social Justice (CSJ) over their claims of unbearable hardship in Ghana under the Akufo-Addo administration and counter-accused the Mahama administration of being responsible for the current high unemployment rate among the youth in the country.
This comes on the back of threats by members of CSJ to hold several protests to pile pressure on the government to improve the economic situation of Ghanaians.
Hundreds of Ghanaians including leaders of the main opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) and the People’s National Convention (PNC) joined the CSJ in the maiden “Kum Y3n Pr3ko” street demonstration in Accra on Tuesday, 9 July 2019 to demand better governance.
But the government has described the move as a mere political gimmick by the NDC to cause public disaffection for the government.
Speaking to Valentina Ofori-Afriyie on 505 on Class91.3FM on Tuesday, 9 July 2019, a Deputy Information Minister, Mr Pius Enam Hadzide blamed the NDC for plunging the country into the current economic mess.
He said: “To argue that this is the same government that is responsible for the unemployment that the NDC, which is leading this demonstration, created and we inherited, there’s a wealth of contradiction in that kind of positioning.
“It was the NDC that went to the IMF for policy credibility and did not employ and as a result of that it created a massive backlog. If you check employment into the health sector alone that this administration has done since we assumed power in 2017, a lot of the employment into the health services are a backlog from between 2012 and 2016 within which time the NDC was at the helm of affairs.”
Source: Ghana/ClassFMonline.com
