IMF bailout: 'NDC has the right to brag but I insist that going to IMF isn't a crime' — NPP MP humbles

The Member of Parliament (MP) for Bortianor-Ngleshie Amanfro constituency, Sylvester Mathew Tetteh can continue to score cheap political points over government's decision to seek an economic bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

He however said the reasons the opposition NDC is attributing to the government's decision to reach out to IMF are not relevant as it will not change the narrative.

“For me, the back and forth about the IMF doesn’t solve the problems. I have said the NDC has the right to score a political point with respect to our position when they went to IMF. For me, politically I give it all to them.

“Going to IMF is not a crime, we are a member of the IMF. I have said that on many occasions. So, for me, to the NDC, they have the bragging right to say that we said we're not going to the IMF and today you are in the IMF. On the surface of it, they have the right to brag about it,” he noted.

The lawmaker stated on Accra-based TV3's 'New Day' Show on Tuesday, July 5, 2022, which was monitored by Modernghana News. He stressed that the IMF move was necessary due to the effects of the coronavirus pandemic as well as the raging Russia-Ukraine war.

“We are back to the IMF because we are not in normal times, nobody should downplay the effect of Covid 1-9 and then the Russia-Ukraine war,” he added.