The debate on Ghana’s economic stewardship resurfaced on Metro TV’s Good Morning Ghana as Hamza Suhuyini defended the National Democratic Congress’s management while sharply criticising the former New Patriotic Party administration.
Suhuyini argued that the NPP repeatedly relied on “political theatrics” instead of sound policy, claiming that their redenomination exercise in 2007 and the recent domestic debt exchange programme were escape routes from mismanagement.
“When things exposed their propaganda, they ran to redenomination in 2007. Fast forward, they did the same with the debt exchange in 2023,” he stated in the interview monitored by MyNewsGh.
“The NDC has never had such a record where we had to rely on currency redenomination or impose a painful debt exchange programme to save the economy.”
He insisted the NDC’s economic performance under John Mahama remains superior when compared fairly.
“Take our second term, 2012 to 2016, against their second term, 2020 to 2024. In 2013, our GDP growth was above 7 per cent. Even their supposed recovery year, 2021, was nowhere near that.”
He further accused the NPP of “engineering figures” rather than presenting real economic outcomes. “We do not manufacture numbers. We present them as they are.”
Suhuyini maintained that the current government inherited a healthier economy in 2017 but “squandered it through poor choices and propaganda-driven policy.”
