A member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Gabby Otchere Darko has revealed that some investors have started asking whether they should leave the country due to the coup comments being made by some members of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC).
In a tweet, Gabby said “Members of the Opposition fanning the ashes on the dead logs of instability may have at least one sinister aim in mind: to scare away investors and hurt efforts to revive the economy. And, yes, investors have started asking questions should they be worried.”
This comes after the Dean of the Faculty of Law at University of Ghana, Professor Raymond Atuguba indicated that Ghana is currently a fertile place for coup due to the bad economic conditions.
Prof Atuguba asked the government to acknowledge the economic mess and try to deal with it.
“We do not want coup in this country but if we do not act quickly we may have one in our hands. There is one thing to do now, prevent coup in Ghana since the climate and the environment, national and immediate international, are conducive for one. We must compel the government to acknowledge the current economic mess, they mostly, and previous governments, to a larger extent.
“Ghana’s economic problems started before Covid-19. On balance, Covid-19 was a good thing for Africa and Ghana,” Prof Atuguba who served as Executive Secretary to Former President John Dramani Mahama said at a forum held by Solidare Ghana.
