Just On Point: Here Are Surprising Statements From Oliver Baker 6 Years Ago On Nana-Addo Governance

In 2015 fix-the-country convenor Osagyefo Oliver Baker-Vormawor warned our political class about what to expect from the ruling government on how they’ve purposed to drench the public purse and frustrate all positive working gainful system with a new scheme.

He warned Ghanaian voters to expect nothing but total complications in every government machinery and how Ghanaians should ready themselves for the uncertainties that will follow, and behold the pointers he gave out some 7 years ago is finally here with Ghanaians.

Below is the full statement convenor of the fix the country movement Oliver Baker-Vormawor made in 2015:

After all, is said and done, after all the name-calling, hair pulling, and fake righteousness is done with, the next Ghana government would have to battle with spiraling debt, reducing the budget deficit, eliminating drift and deadlock, setting the nation back on the path of recovery. Happenings

Real austerity measures with public debt tipping “officially” over 89 billion GHC, yet set to still rise, the future truly is bleak, no matter who wins in 2016. Hard cost-cutting decisions would have to be made. Soon, no prudent creditor would loan money to us. In desperation, we would offer them insane interest rates.

What’s worse, if the ITLOS decision in 2017 anyway affects negatively our ability to exploit petroleum resources, then the revenue-raising capacities of the state would further diminish. 

Some things are likely to remain a constant, Political appointees feeling the pressure economically would devise craftier ways to divert public funds. The next 2016-2020 government would make no progress in improving public infrastructure. Ghana is headed for depression no matter who wins the next election. The question is how fast and how slow. Business as usual won’t work. 

The Government that broadens the tax base, plugs the leakages in revenue administration, and aggressively tackles corruption would have a better chance of averting an eruption of the streets.

Ignore the signs of your peril. But the fact is your vote won’t matter in 2016. Not much anyway. Unless the government wakes up and radically changes, and unless the opposition disabuses its mind about how “not bad things are”, we are heading for doom and your votes won’t matter.

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