The US ambassador to Ghana Virginia E Palmer has paid a courtesy call on former president John Mahama to discuss matters of mutual interest to Ghana and America.
In a social media post after the meeting, Mahama said: “Among others, we discussed the state of security in the West African subregion and its implications for Ghana, the state of our economy, investment in local industries, and the hostility of the Electoral Commission towards the NDC.”
“Ghana’s economic woes, I explained, have been compounded by the missteps of the government, poor economic decisions, the collapse of indigenous banks and finance institutions instead of saving them, corruption, and the misappropriation of COVID-19 funds, which were shared to party officials,” he added.
He, however, expressed confidence that following the IMF programme, “there would be more discipline in government’s handling of the economy.”
“Confidence will only be restored when people know that we are in a programme and that the government will not behave as recklessly as it did in the past,” Mahama said.
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