It was challenge after challenge to the National Democratic Congress, from the camp of the New Patriotic Party.
Under the Mahama administration and with the late Kwesi Ammissah Arthur as Vice President and Former Governor of the Central Bank, then Economist, and running mate, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia threw some 170 questions about the economy after a lecture on the state of the economy and vowed to haunt Mr. Amissah till he proves him wrong by ‘fixing’ the mess of an economy they had created for Ghanaians.
Elections came, the NPP won and barely five months after their administration began, Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia was confident his administration had dealt with the increasingly worrying fall of the cedi.
Giving an account of the first 100 days in office, Dr. Bawumia said they had been able to ‘arrest’ the fall of the cedi as well as made some 103 achievements. Whilst delivering a 40-minute presentation at a town hall meeting in 2017, Dr. Bawumia said the free fall of the cedi had been arrested and the keys given to the Inspector General of Police (IGP) for safekeeping.
Some Ghanaians have taken to social media to question the Vice President on among other things, the need for a committee to investigate the fall of the cedi if indeed he had arrested it.
They also are questioning Mr. Bawumia about his 170 questions and how they seem still unanswered even under his administration.
Here are a few of the tweets as compiled by www.ghanaweb.com:
So #Bawumia couldn’t arrest the cedi with his 170 questions? Hmmm Ghana errn
— Dr. Ayigbe Borla Bird ??? ???????? (@Mr_Ceyram) January 19, 2020
https://t.co/4lVSKzdgqn
Mr President Bore ???? on his way to arrest the cedi.???? pic.twitter.com/mMl2Uu1H6b
— #KASOABOY???? (@asswanmediagh) January 19, 2020
Even a Level 300 student knows the solution to the falling cedi.
— K?rtis?l (@BraJinglez) January 19, 2020
We have economists in this country and yet we need a committee to investigate?
???? funny how nicodemusly he’s missing from Ghana whiles the Cedi is sky rocketing. Afraid of #CediPolice
— Exxel™® (@oheek1) January 19, 2020
will the Cedi appear b4 the committee...? How I wish de late VEeP Amisah is still alive...! #RIP
— #legoncitiesfc (@NanaRhabbles1) January 19, 2020
Mr President Bore ???? on his way to arrest the cedi.???? pic.twitter.com/mMl2Uu1H6b
— #KASOABOY???? (@asswanmediagh) January 19, 2020
Vice President is to work, he’s not be going about lying and doing propaganda. Now the cedi has locked him up.
— Israel Ba (@Shaunnewtons) January 19, 2020
#Bawumia and #cedi are better examples of correlation analysis.... if one is trending, the other will definitely trend as well ????????
— odenkyen???????????????????????????? (@Yahaya94Yahaya) January 19, 2020
He is now struggling to defend his assertions.Claiming it’s warp logic to jump in to the conclusion that, when the cedi depreciates it doesn’t mean the fundamentals are weak. You can’t manage the economy with google knowledge and text book analysis. Time has exposed him so badly https://t.co/8mG5bxIxUE
— Abdul-Razak Iddrisu ???????? (@Id_abdulrazak) January 19, 2020
How does a man who propounded "The Law of Fundamentals" suddenly need a 40member committee to advice him and his group of Ancient Liars on what is causing the Depreciation of the cedi?
— SSS promotion (@SSS_Promotion) January 19, 2020
The law was Clear "If you play politics with the Cedi, the fundamentals would expose you".
Ghana and Committees! I thought we had a competent economic management team led by Veep @MBawumia? So what's this new committee to investigate why the cedi is falling freely? @3fm927@tv3_ghana
— Johnnie Hughes, TBG (@hughes_onair) January 18, 2020
