National Chairman of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) Johnson Asiedu Nketia has criticised the Akufo-Addo government over what he has described as the devastated state of Ghana’s economy.

According to him, the NDC left a strong and sound economy but it has been destroyed and collapsed for the past seven years.

General Mosquito as he is popularly known recollected that pensioners for the first time had to picket at the Ministry of Finance against the government.

Amidst the hardship, Mr Asiedu stated that, the government has rather taken interest in burdening Ghanaians with more taxes.

“The economy collapsed for the past seven years. The government has also introduced a plethora of taxes that are visiting excruciating hardships on our living conditions.

“The economy has collapsed to the extent that we have to introduce new fanciful terms such as hair cuts and domestic….for the first time in our history, pensioners who served our country and her entitled to a fat retirement have had to picket at the Ministry of Finance to demand their hard-earned pension which they have invested,” he said at the NDC manifesto launch in Winneba on Saturday.

He added corruption, nepotism and impunity has weakened independent state institutions’.

Source: Adomonline.com

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