A Deputy National Communication Director of the governing New Patriotic Party, Mr. Kamal-Deen Abdulai, has urged the Akufo-Addo government to ban the importation of non-essential goods into the local market.
He mentioned the importation of items such as used clothing, assorted liquor and soft drinks, bottled mineral water and rice among others.
The former NPP National Nasara Coordinator on a Facebook post said this is trite knowledge and in his view our lust for foreign stuff is killing the Ghanaian economy.
“Why won’t we be struggling as a people, when almost every wholesale or retail shop one enters in Ghana is flooded with foreign or imported goods including things we can easily produce here? I wish we hold the bull by the horns and ban the importation of non-essential goods into this country” he wrote.
The post of the NPP stalwart comes in the wake of the Akufo-Addo led NPP government’s decision to go to the International Monetary Fund for a bailout.
The Minister for Information announced last Friday (July 1, 2022) announced that President Nana Akufo-Addo had given approval for Minister for Finance, Ken Ofori Atta, to begin formal engagements with the IMF to provide balance of payment support to the nation in the face of the inundated challenges as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic as well as the ongoing Russian-Ukraine war.
President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo had earlier had a phone conversion with the Managing Director of the Bretton woods institution, Miss Kristalina Georgieva, conveying Ghana’s resolution to engage the fund.
Meanwhile, officials of the International Monetary Fund are expected in the country on Wednesday, 6th July, 2022, to commence discussions with the Economic Management Team (EMT), pertaining to the bailout programme.
