According to the Coalition for Social Justice (CSJ), the typical Ghanaian’s predicament has deteriorated over the last five years under the Akufo-Addo-Bawumia administration.
As a result, the organization believes it is essential to support and participate in the impending protest march organized by the opposition NDC’s Youth Wing on Thursday, February 10th, 2022.
In a statement, they said “This is a government that promised so many goodies in opposition but came into government to deliver too little, disappointing a vast majority of the Ghanaian people who queued under the scorching sun to vote for President Akufo Addo and the NPP. After five years in government, it is abundantly clear that Ghanaians were hoodwinked, pranked, and deceived into putting their hopes in a political party and president that actually cared less about the ordinary Ghanaian.
“The exacerbating levels of corruption, abuse of office, impunity, and mismanagement of the resources of the state under this government has been unprecedented in the history of the Fourth Republican Dispensation.
“This is a government that has received more national revenue and contracted loans than every other government in history and yet cannot account for what all that money has been used for. Such a government in our estimation does not need to receive any more revenues until it proves its capacity and preparedness to prudently and judiciously manage and expend what it receives.
“The Coalition For Social Justice like many other stakeholders in academia and civil society are outrightly opposed to an electronic transactions levy that will only visit more misery and hardship on the Ghanaian people at a time that the country is supposed to be building a cashless society. The ravaging ramifications of any such levy on the already precarious unemployment situation, the attendant job losses, and the inability for mobile money operators to expand cannot be lost on us if allowed to be passed into law.
“To that end, we urge all progressive-minded Ghanaians to join this planned demonstration in order to send a strong enough message to the belligerent Nana Akufo Addo and his Parliamentary Group to prioritize the concerns and conditions of ordinary Ghanaians over seeking to further pilfer and dip their hands into the public purse.”
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SOURCE: 3NEWS
