The Ghana Statistical Service (GSS) and the Finance Ministry have said Dr. Bawumia\u2019s interpretation of figures<\/strong><\/span><\/a> during his lecture is misleading.<\/p>\n But the GSS however admitted that there was a mistake<\/strong><\/span><\/a> with the data on GDP growth rates for 2009 because there was an error during the transmission of the data unto its website but it was subsequently corrected upon detection.<\/p>\n However, speaking on Citi FM’s<\/strong> new analysis programme, The Big Issue<\/em><\/strong>, Cudjoe questioned why a small country like Ghana has been unable to put together accurate data on its citizens and the economy saying, \u201cthis is a country which is too small for proper accounting not to be done well.\u201d<\/p>\n The IMANI boss remarked that if all those who are attacking Dr. Bawumia had done some \u201cserious academic work before, they would have realised that at a time that you source an item, you note the date and you quote it.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cThe commonsensical question all those loud mouths should have asked Dr. Bawumia was when he sourced his figures. All those chastising Bawumia for academic dishonesty are just a funny lot.\u201d<\/p>\n Ghana lacks proper accounting system<\/strong><\/p>\n Meanwhile, Financial Analyst, Sydney Casely-Hayford on his part said Ghana does not have a proper accounting system and has adversely affected the figures which are churned out by state institutions mandated to do so including the Ghana Statistical Service (GSS).<\/p>\n He complained saying, \u201cthe way we put the numbers together in order to report the accounts of this country are very, very bad\u2026 so when you have a debt to GDP calculation which is hovering now between 67% and some 70 something percent, depending on which figures you use and you start questioning the GDP figure and you say he [Bawumia] is being intellectually dishonest, I find that very disingenuous.<\/p>\n He acknowledged that indeed, although Dr. Bawumia\u2019s speech was on a national issue such as the impact of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) bailout on the Ghanaian economy, it was political.<\/p>\n \u201cWhen Bawumia gets up to speak about the economy, there is no way it will not be a political delivery\u2026because as far as his combatants are concerned on the NDC [National Democratic Congress] side, everything that he says is because he is trying to chalk up points towards winning governance in the next election.\u201d<\/p>\n Casely-Hayford added that \u201conce Bawumia delivers anything, you expect that it is going to be interpreted political and it truly was at the end of the day.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana![\"bawumia\"](\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bawumia1.jpg\")
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