Ghana’s economic recovery cannot be told without Bawumia’s interventions — Dr. Ekua Amoakoh

A member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) communication team, Dr. Ekua Amoakoh, has stated that the country's economic recovery story is incomplete without the interventions of former Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.

She maintains that the Akufo-Addo administration’s measures, including Dr. Bawumia’s domestic gold purchase programme, have been critical in stabilising the economy in recent times.

In a social media post on Wednesday, September 24, the NPP communicator said while the then opposition National Democratic Congress was being deceitful about the economy, Dr. Bawumia was bausily developing sustainable policies that set us back on a path of recovery.

“When the whole world went into a crisis, it took a true genius to come up with sustainable policies that set us back on a path of recovery.

“It is now clear as day that the story of Ghana’s economic recovery cannot be told without Dr. Bawumia’s domestic gold purchase programme and other commodity-backed interventions,” she said.

Her remarks followed President John Dramani Mahama’s acknowledgement of the devastating economic impact of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Speaking at the Accra Reset event on the sidelines of the 80th United Nations General Assembly in New York on Tuesday, September 23, the President said the pandemic erased two decades of global poverty reduction and pushed millions into chronic hunger.

“The COVID-19 pandemic erased two decades of poverty reduction in less than two years. Climate change has driven nearly 735 million people back into chronic hunger. Almost one in 10 of the world’s population is facing chronic hunger,” he said.