By Iddi Yire
Accra, Jan 11, GNA – Mr Franklin Cudjoe, the Founding President of IMANI Centre for Policy and Education, has lauded the appointment of Dr Cassiel Ato Baah Forson as the finance minister-designate, describing it as “sensible”.
In a statement copied to the Ghana News Agency, he recalled how in April 2024, he had an opportunity to engage with Dr Forson to discuss what must be done to prevent further damage to the nation’s “jalopy economy.”
Mr Cudjoe said he had invited Dr Forson to meet a small team of Ghanaian and British consultants the British Government recently engaged to design a modest £5m programme – the Financial and Economic Resilience in Ghana (FERG) programme.
That was to complement existing workstreams, and those of other development partners, to address Ghana’s longstanding challenges with fiscal and macroeconomic instability.
He noted that the interaction was eye-opening and worth every second of the two-hour encounter.
“I was convinced that Hon. Ato Forson had earned the stripes to be a successful financial minister,” Mr Cudjoe said.
“As deputy team leader of the mission, I will endorse the release of the £5m as soon as possible to help Ato Forson strenghten ministerial budget preparation to cut out waste and capacitate Ghana’s debt management office….”
He said mortgaging of the country’s gold resources through deals like ‘Agyapa’ was horrible and should not be tolerated.
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