HIPC is bankruptcy -Mahama

PNC Demands Date For HIPC Completion Point
The flagbearer of the People?s National Convention (PNC), Dr. Edward Mahama, has called on President Kufuor to tell Ghanaians the new date on which Ghana will reach the completion point of the Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) initiative.

He said the President had continuously indicated to the people of Ghana that by the end of June, the country would have arrived at the HIPC completion point, but now June had passed and so the people wanted a new date

?We are in July and the President has not told us anything, so it is our legitimate right to ask him what is happening to the HIPC initiative?, he stressed.

Dr. Mahama, who made the call when he interacted with pressmen in Navrongo in the Upper East region, emphasized that as the potential winner of the forthcoming elections and potential President of Ghana, he deserved to know whether the country was still ?bankrupt?, explaining HIPC is bankruptcy.

He pointed out that there had not been meaningful result since Ghana opted for the HIPC initiative, adding that ?we are looking for results but not how much has been spent?.

According to the PNC flagbearer, material and in fact mortality rates were still high, health personnel continued to desert the country, while education for the people was nothing to write home about, and yet the government claimed that HIPC had brought relief to Ghana.

Dr. Mahama alleged that either HIPC money was being misappropriated or misapplied and that there was the need for a serious scrutiny of the funds for the public to know.