Our picketing is over, we’ve gotten what we wanted, we thank Ofori-Atta – Pensioners

Our picket is over, we got what we wanted, thanks to Ofori-Atta – Pensioners

The pensioners who picketed at the Ministry of Finance to protest being included in the Domestic Debt Exchange Program (DDEP) said the demonstration is over because they got what they wanted from Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta.

Speaking in an interview on the Ghana Tonight Show on TV3 Friday, February 17, the retired leader who is also the former Director General of the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) Dr. Adu Anane Antwi said “we went to the Ministry of Finance today. just thank you [Ofori-Atta] to present a request, not for discussion. The pickets are over because they got what they wanted.

Mr. Ofori-Atta assured the pensioners that no one would be penalized for any reason in connection with the DDEP.

They said that matured coupons will be honored after Tuesday, February 21, 2023.

A statement issued after the retiree called him on Friday February 17 said “the settlement will be done after Tuesday, then we can start processing everyone. [bonds]”.

The statement added, “But let no one have the inkling that anyone will be punished for any reason. All coupons will be treated in the same manner as the contract was signed.

“We are in a difficult situation, so we are carrying out a debt exchange program and we hope that the percentage of bonds signed in the program will reduce the interest on the debt and give us fiscal space to honor any commitment we have. with our bond.”

Earlier, Dr Adu Anane Antwi said he was fighting for Publishers Exemption and not freedom.

He states that the two are completely different.

“If you don’t understand the issue between self-exempt and issuer-exempt, you won’t understand what we are doing,” he said on TV3’s Ghana Tonight show on Wednesday, February 15.

He added, “No one is against us, we are fighting for the Issuer to be released and we have not got it.

“This is a technical thing, even the people in the securities do not understand if they do not do the analysis. We want to be in the exempt status of the issuer of securities.

By Laud Nartey|3news.com|Ghana

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