How int'l media reported Adongo’s description of Bawumia as ‘Economic Maguire’ - www.asempanews.com

Mahamudu Bawumia, and Manchester United captain, Harry Maguire.

.

Using the football analogy to drum home his message on Wednesday, November 30, 2022, as the House debated the 2023 budget statement, the MP indicated that just as Harry Maguire of Manchester United Football Club, Dr.

Mahamudu Bawumia is Ghana’s “Economic Maguire”.

.

Adongo explained that Manchester United’s Maguire has become a threat to the defence of his club by scoring ‘own goals’ and assisting opponents to beat his club, arguing that Dr.

Bawumia, our Economic Maguire is now tackling all the fundamentals of our economy and destroying all of them,” Isaac Adongo said on the floor amid laughter by the MPs.

“Despite good performances at the World Cup so far, England’s Harry Maguire was used as an example by an MP in Ghana to ridicule the vice president who he accused of economic mismanagement,” Al Jazeera reported.

Harry Maguire has been mocked by a Ghanaian MP who unfavourably compared the nation's vice president to the England and Manchester United star.Read more on this story:

— Sky News (@SkyNews)