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E-Levy Will Stop Us From Going Back To IMF – Ken Ofori-Atta Tells Ghanaians

Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has called on Ghanaians to support the passage of the e-Levy to prevent the state from going back to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for assistance which comes with its own unpleasant conditionalities.

Speaking at the government’s town-hall meeting to discuss thee-Levyon Thursday, 27 January 2022, the minister said “When we were in the IMF programme, we couldn’t pay for nurses and teachers…we couldn’t hire anymore because there were restrictions on that. I mean, it’s just really thinking you can go back to Egypt.

“In a way, we have forgotten how difficult and tenacious that master from Washington was.

“So, we can deal with them for them to give us advice but we need not ever get into an IMF programme [again]. If we don’t do this E-Levy, we’re just pushing ourselves in a way that would potentially end up in such a disaster.”

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