Kwame Jantuah, the Chief Executive Officer of the African Energy Consortium, has stated that the Ghanaian people are concerned about how revenues collected from the yet-to-be-approved E-levy will be used.
Ghanaians, according to Mr Jantuah, who is also a private legal practitioner, do not believe the current administration has handled the economy well, which is why the E-levy is being rejected.
He said on the New Day show,
“There is a question of trust. Ghanaians want to know if they can trust the government to account to them on the use of the e-levy money,”
He added “Do the people feel the government has handled the economy well? From a look of things it doesn’t look so.”
On Thursday, February 10, he was speaking at a discussion about the Yentua demonstration against the proposed E-levy.
During the rally, Johnson Asiedu Nketia, the General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), gave notice that if the current administration passes the Electronic Transfer Levy, it will be repealed within the first 100 days of its administration.
In the improbable event that the bill passes the Eighth Parliament, he said that was a pledge he was making on behalf of his party.
Sam Nartey George, Member of Parliament for Ningo-Prampram Constituency, shared similar concerns.
“Well, I am glad my General Secretary has said it. People have been asking and you are hearing it today,” he told Media General‘s Johnnie Hughes at Obra Spot, the converging point of the Yentua Demo.
“We have made a pledge to the Ghanaian people [that] when the NDC comes into power, in the first 100 days we will abolish it because it is a nuisance tax.”
