Pack your things and leave the Jubilee House if E-Levy is your only Messiah to save Ghanaians – Kwesi Pratt to NPP government
The Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, Kwesi Pratt Jnr has asked the government to vacate the Jubilee House if they continue to consider E-levy as the everlasting solution to Ghana’s economic difficulties.
Speaking at the 56th anniversary of the Socialist Movement of Ghana to commemorate the overthrow of Dr. Kwame Nkrumah, the veteran journalist lamented the economic woes of the country. He noted that the country’s ailing economic situation has gone from bad to worse since the overthrow of Nkrumah.
Commenting on the raging conversations surrounding the controversial E-Levy, Mr. Pratt Jnr opined that Ghanaians are unwilling to pay the electronic transaction levy. He emphasized that “we will never pay that E-levy”.
Kwesi Pratt Jnr, therefore, advised the government to pack out of office if it has no other alternative apart from the E-Levy in seeking to solve the nation’s economic problems.
“Only yesterday, the Minister of Finance made a rather interesting statement…Ken Ofori-Atta looked all of us in the face and said the Ghanaian economy is in tatters and he said if we don’t agree to pay the E-Levy, Armageddon will visit us.
Clearly, the only solution they appear to have is E-Levy. For their information, we will never pay that E-Levy and if all they can do is to impose the E-levy on us…and they know that if they are not able to impose the E-levy on us the economy will crush, then maybe they should start advising themselves to pack out of office because we ain’t going to pay that E-levy,” he said.
