Kwame Jantuah, a private legal practitioner, has commended the former Chief Justice Sophia Akuffo for joining a picket line of pensioners who staged protest at the Finance Ministry, demanding that the government exempt them from the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP).
Akuffo described as wicked and insensitive the decision by the Finance Ministry to include bonds of pensioners in the programme.
“A lot of us are from the generation where we were always encouraged to save and quite a number of people here today, when they retired, put their savings into government bonds. And now all of a sudden you eventually want to at gunpoint force them to agree with you that the yield on their investment should be as you dictate it. Why?” Akuffo demanded.
“It’s important that the elderly in this nation should be respected. I find this wicked and disrespectful and unlawful because you don’t solve your problem by sacrificing the aged,” she said.
Appearing on Asaase 99.5 Accra’s news analysis show, The Forum, on Saturday (11 February), Jantuah said “what the former Chief Justice did was good but I’m looking for more. More of that caliber of people to stand up and show their disgust at what the Finance Minister is doing.”
“Yes, it’s a chicken and egg situation, in terms of which comes first. The president cannot see that people have lost confidence in Ofori-Atta to see us through this situation.”
“Where is the economic management team in this entire process?” Jantuah asked. “Don’t you think if the EMT was handling this, it will be easier for Ghanaians to accept, because the people have lost trust in the Finance Minister.”
Listen to the full programme in the attached video clip below:
Reporting by Fred Dzakpata in Accra
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