The office of former President Kufuor has rubbished comments of Agric Minister, Fiifi Kwetey on the assessment of President John Mahama\u2019s two years as President.<\/p>\n
Fiifi Kwetey said President Mahama\u2019s two years in office as President of Ghana was more transformational one than that of the Kufuor-led Administration.<\/p>\n
According to him, Ghana has seen more development under the two-year-old Mahama-led administration than it did under the eight-year rule of former President John Kufuor.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”W3pAr2v1BZD6O1BcsHLBQsgjUIV3JF4K”]The Minister made these comments on an Accra based radio station, Radio Gold on Saturday.<\/p>\n
Reacting to the Agric Minister\u2019s comments, spokesperson for former President Kufuor, Frank Agyekum said the comments are baseless and very insincere.<\/p>\n
He described it as \u201cthe biggest joke I\u2019ve ever heard and I think it\u2019s very insincere,\u201d stressing that \u201cthere is no way you can compare John Mahama\u2019s eight years to the two years.\u201d<\/p>\n
Mr. Agyekum recalled that Ghana received worldwide acknowledgement as a Highly Indebted and Poor Country (HIPC) under President Kufuor \u201cbut by the time he was leaving office, Ghana was a middle income earning country.\u201d<\/p>\n
He asked: \u201cHow then do you come and compare that within the two years, President Mahama had done better that President Kufuor? Is he saying that Ghana has been moved up the ranks to middle income status since President Mahama came?\u201d<\/p>\n
An angry Agyekum added that President Kufuor worked hard to move Ghana out of International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout programme and all countries other countries receiving support from the IMF have successfully weaned themselves by growing their economies.<\/p>\n
But in comparison, he said Ghana\u2019s ongoing talks with the IMF for a bailout under the Mahama administration is indicative that the economy is being mismanaged.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen President Mahama came, we run back to the IMF and that is to tell you that Ghana is not doing well and we had to go to the IMF to fix the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen the economy is failing, that is when we go to the IMF to seek help I disagree with him, it\u2019s not true, it has no basis and facts at all,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n
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By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana
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