AFC Coordinator Advises Akufo-Addo Against VAT Increment

The Ashanti Regional Coordinator of the defunct Alliance for Change (AFC), Nana Nanabanyin Ninsin-Imbeah II, has advised the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, against increasing the Value Added Tax (VAT) rate.

According to Nana Ninsin-Imbeah II, any increase in the VAT rate would make life unbearable for Ghanaians.

In a statement issued in Kumasi, the Ashanti AFC Coordinator, who is also the National Chairman of the Ghana Highway Authority Retired Staff Association (GHARSA), suggested to the President to aggressively work to retrieve monies, including the GH¢51 million owed the state by Alfred Agbesi Woyome.

The President must also pursue the alleged double salaries paid to some former and current Members of Parliament (MPs), the proceeds for the contaminated fuel, and other monies that have been meticulously revealed by the Auditor General of Ghana, as having been recklessly spent by some Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies (MMDAs) and other state officials.

Nana Ninsin-Imbeah II, who is also the Ex-Nyimfahen of the Mfantseman Council in the Ashanti Region, contends that the initial assurance that those monies are in the country and must be retrieved to save the people of Ghana from any reckless increases that would make life very unbearable and uncomfortable for the majority of the people.

Following that, the ex-chief has entreated the President, who was the National Spokesperson of the AFC, which group vehemently fought against the implementation of the VAT in 1995, to give a hearing to the call not to increase the VAT rate.

He said a positive response to the call would be an indication that when he led Ghanaians to kick against the VAT in his youthful days, he was genuinely demonstrating his commitment to save them from hardship.

To the AFC Coordinator, it also tells those who were shot and killed during the AFC demonstration against VAT that they did not die in vain.