If there is anyone to be accused of incompetence then it’s Akufo-Addo – Bokpin

The results that President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has delivered over the last 8 years are not satisfactory enough, a Professor at the University of Ghana Business School, Godfred Bokpin has said.

In the view of Prof Bokpin, the President could have done far better than what he has served Ghanaians.

Contributing to a discussion on the economic situation in Ghana on TV3’s Big Issue Tuesday July 30, he said “Our current president, if we are talking about anyone who should’ve accused of incompetence then it should be our current president because he has been around for so long. He has no excuse for these results.

“That is why four years ago we were not speaking like this, five ago we were more sympathetic towards the government.”

Going into the 2024 general elections, Prof Bokpin said that the two main parties that have governed the country in the Fourth Republic are all guilty of their inability to account for the excessive borrowings.

To him, there are very few development projects to show for the borrowings that have been done by the two parties.

He said “Let me ask you and ask our government, not only this government but including the NDC government, what did they use the borrowed funds for? What assets did we create? How prudent were we in spending the funds?

“If you look at it across the two political parties and here I say there is none holy, let us look at it objectively

“A good way to do it is not just to say this flagbearer is holy and therefore let us vote for him. No, there is none holy, let us give them the data as it is.

“I will be happy for a flagbearer to say that we admit our errors, we have been therefore before, all the two main political parties that probably have the chance of governing this country from 2025 have had the chance under the Fourth Republic, we know their errors, we know what they have done, let them admit, let them show repentance, let them demonstrate to us how they have learned from their past, how the data has convicted them and how resolved they are to correct them.”

When his attention was drawn to the fact that the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress (ND) former president John Dramani Mahama has admitted he learned from the mistakes he made which is why he is taking that we give him another chance, he answered that “That is not enough.”