The Deputy Youth Organizer of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Edem Agbana, has projected that the Ghana government may not be able to pay public sector workers in few months to come.
He said the economic hardship facing the country could see the government struggle to pay the salaries of employees in the next three or four months if critical steps are not taken.
Speaking on Anopa Bofoↄ morning show on Angel FM hosted by Kwamina Sam Biney, Edem Agbana argued that the economy has already “collapsed” and continues to worsen.
“The economy has already collapsed, in the next three to four months, i am predicting this on your network that we will get to a point where the government of Ghana cannot pay salaries of public sector workers.”
“So in the next four months, if things stand as it is now in Ghana, the government cannot pay salaries because the economy is collapsing,” the NDC deputy youth organizer said in Twi dialect.
He reiterated that, although the economy has collapsed, Ghana was “saved” by the support of some International Organizations such as the International Monetary Fund (IMF), and the World Bank during the hike of the global Covid-19 pandemic.
Mr. Agbana added “if you observed the direction where the economy is heading to, we are about to collapse this country”
He indicated that not only economic challenges are facing the country, but also the “problem of insecurity” in the agricultural sector.
Therefore, he believes there is the possibility of the country experiencing food shortage because peasant farmers and other farm practices have predicted the drought.
Asked by the host what could necessitate the ‘food shortage’, Mr. Agbana said the agricultural sector in the past five years has been used for propaganda by the ruling government with the ‘planting for Food and Jobs’ initiative. Thus, the government has not invested in the growing of food crops to meet the demands of the consuming public but has performed lip service to them.
