Dr Smart Sarpong, a Senior Researcher at the Kumasi University of Technology has urged the government to heed the plea of pensioners not to participate in the controversial Domestic Debt Exchange Program (DDEP).
The pensioners have been picketing the Ministry since Monday, February 6 to be released from the Programme.
Dr. Smart spoke to Kwami Sefa Kayi in Damai FM‘morning show’Cockroaches‘, asked how “Pensioners and money are our lifeblood as a country? No one should tell us that … let’s look elsewhere and leave the old people. A country that does not respect heroes does not deserve to die …
Hear him in the video below
Meanwhile, the former Chief Justice, Sophia Akuffo has described as “disobedient” and “disrespectful” the government’s decision to include pensioners in the Domestic Debt Exchange Program (DDEP).
Speaking to journalists after he joined pensioners to picket at the Ministry of Finance in Accra on Friday, February 10, he said: “Now we are over 70 years, I am no longer a government employee, my mouth is not guarded and I speak and I saying that we have failed and that it is important that parents should be respected. I find this bad, I find it disrespectful, I find it illegal, I find it wrong.”
According to him, “these are all people who have worked, they have worked hard, they can leave the country when others leave but they stay, they work for the nation… Quite a lot of people here, when they retire for two years they put everything to government bonds, it’s a contract and now all of a sudden, you actually want to force people to agree with you that you pay back from the return on investment that should be as dictated by that. Why?”
“Why are we bothering ourselves? No one fully explains, yes debt, what is it used for? and where is the responsibility? What exactly is it for? You don’t tell me how you can make the situation better, but just ‘help me and I help you’, no, you help yourself first, let’s see you do something serious because we have seen this kind of thing. too many things” he added.
Source: Peacefmonline.com
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