Vice President Dr Mahamadu Bawumia has replied to critics that he has not deserted his work which centres on reviving and strengthening the Ghanaian economy to make doing business simple and easy.
According to the Vice President, his recent interest in the field of Information and Communication Technology (ICT) does not mean his focus on the economy has waned.
In his view, there is a linkage between economics and ICT for which reason he is actually using digitilisation to strengthen the pillars of the economy, a situation he refers to as digitalisation of the economy.
“Sometimes people say, well, we thought you were an economist, but you’re doing so much in IT space. Have you left economics behind? No, no, not at all. In fact, it is because of the economy that I’m focusing on digitising because without building those pillars, our economy will just not be able to stand on its own feet”, Dr. Bawumia stated.
He made the statement while addressing participants of an Agric students’ boot camp at the Jubilee House on Monday.
He added that his presence in the Akufo-Addo-led administration as the leader of the Economic Management Team is because that is the role the President assigned to him.
“Coming into government and heading the Economic Management Team, the President gave me that mandate and opportunity to focus on how best we can transform and modernise Ghana to make sure that some of the challenges, some of the risks that, you know, people just want to operate in our economy are facing, how we mitigate those risks, how we make this economy an efficient economy and this is why I have focused on digitalisation,”
Dr. Bawumia’s comments follow some public assertions that he has abandoned his work as an economist and is fixated on issues relating to ICT.
Some members of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) accused the Vice President of being silent on the economy while the majority of Ghanaians lament economic hardship.
