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11.11.2021 Feature Article

A note to Dr M. Bawumia

A note to Dr M. Bawumia
11.11.2021 LISTEN

Mark Twain is the wittiest satirist I have ever come across.

Take this: “There are lies, dammed lies and statistics.”

The Vice-president of Ghana, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia is one fella who likes to throw statistics around. That’s understandable when we remember that he’s a much touted economist and a former Central Banker. What is difficult to understand is when a politician like Dr. Bawumia, who purport to represent citizens, appear to live in a parallel universe that makes him look totally out of touch with the reality his people live.

While the VP gallivants around and beams like a Cheshire Cat that stole the canary, the sad reality is more and more citizens are sinking deeper and deeper into economic quagmire.

Of course, for high state officials in Africa like Bawumia who takes as much freebies from the state as they can get away with, life in Ghana is one bed of roses. Unfortunately, the sad truth is that things continue to get harder and harsher for the average Abena and Kwabena.

I took a walk around my neighborhood in Kasoa today and discovered that more businesses are boarding up and closing down. The Mall is gone, so is its giant warehouse. The bank has closed shop, ditto the pharmacy. The pictures didn’t project an economy that’s on the right trajectory like Dr. Bawumia is claiming.

VP Bawumia will do well to remember the admonition of the late African Economist, Professor Adebayo Adedeji: Any economic policy which marginalizes people is doomed to failure.

“But while they prate of economic laws, men and women are starving. We must lay hold of the fact that economic laws are not made by nature. They are made by human beings.” Franklin D. Roosevelt.

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