Dr. Smart Sarpong, Senior Fellow of Research at Kumasi Technical University (KsTU), asserts that vice president Dr. Mohamadu Bawumia, who leads the Economic Management Team (EMT), is not to blame for the nation’s economic system’s issues.
“People are saying all sorts of things against Dr. Bawumia but let me put it on record that the team [the EMT] headed by the Vice President had the members selected and constituted by the president of Ghana His Excellency Nana Addo Dankwah Akuffo-Addo for Bawumia to work with them,” Dr. Smart said in a phone interview with the renowned Sir John on the Kumasi-based Fox Morning Drive, which was actively monitored by the 1Family Radio.
Dr. Smart publicly and vehemently disputed with everyone who put the blame for the squandering of the nation’s economic resources on Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia, claiming that it was unfair of the so-called economists to put the full blame on the Vice President.
Dr. Smart brought up the fact that Nana Addo Akuffo-Addo appointed both the Governor of the Bank of Ghana and the minister of finance. He acknowledged that the Vice President could have performed better, but only if he had been granted the authority to swap out certain EMT members.
“We cannot hold Dr. Bawumia accountable” Dr. Smart continued, “Since someone had to make the choice and that person is unwilling to alter the people”.
Source: 1Familyradio.