In any serious country that wouldn’t like to go back to the International Monetary Fund, Akufo Addo should hold a meeting with his cabinet and decide to give back a certain percentage of its salaries to the State, to revamp the economy. Many countries have done that before, why not Ghana?
When it comes to the payment of tax, you have to give to Caesar what belongs to him but in a country like Ghana, of which five years have been wasted by the NPP, the government doesn’t deserve any E-levy.
After incurring huge debt on Ghana, if the NPP government couldn’t create jobs for the common people, then it’s a political crime to design a fraudulent means to steal the money of the poor and call it taxation.
According to the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta, Ghana doesn’t want to go to the International Monetary Fund, therefore, Ghanaians must accept the proposal but take into serious consideration, it is the NPP politicians that must cut their pay to salvage the economy, not through E-Levy.
The Akufo Addo-led government has miserably failed the fight against corruption even though he promised to protect the public’s purse. It is massive corruption that has let down the country.
When did the Director of Communications to the president, Eugene Arhin, enter politics to amass so much wealth within the shortest period? It’s not him alone, every management, including the harbors and airports, is experiencing corruption.
If the president is serious to tackle this incurable disease, he would have saved enough money to create jobs and revamp the economy. Since he hates challenges, he has ignored the battle to save the public’s purse; instead, he has come out with a dubious lazy plan to make money from the poor.
That’s not going to happen because it’s an absolute disgrace for the NPP government to take money from people for whom they haven’t provided jobs. They must consider themselves in the shoes of the common people and will fully understand unless they are greedy and corrupt.
Apart from the NPP government officials’ big salaries, in addition, they enjoy several allowances and benefits, which one-tenth of a hundred percent of them doesn’t exist for the common people, therefore, giving back a certain percentage of their salaries to the state will be a very important measure.
As rich and corrupt the NPP politicians are at the same time, I don’t think they will find it difficult to accept this proposal, however, if they are not willing to cut their pay for the state, then the common Ghanaians should kick the E-levy into one of the stinking gutters around the Makola market.
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