The Minority Leader in Parliament, Dr Cassiel Ato Forson has criticised the outgoing government for what he described as poor governance and mismanagement, drawing from his personal experience in recent times.
According to him, the poor governance and mismanagement led Ghanaians to show the outgoing government the exit in the just-ended presidential and parliamentary elections.
Speaking during the dissolution of the 8th parliament, Dr Forson reflected on the charges brought against him in recent years.
Read also: Posterity will vindicate our warnings against NPP's reckless borrowing - Ato Forson He argued that the tax introduced by the government disrupted the entire concept of digitalisation, thus causing significant upheaval in the country's economy. "At the personal level, I have had to pay a heavy price for my stance against the government's mismanagement, Mr Speaker, my recent prosecution or call it persecution by the Attorney General over frivolous and trumped-up charges was calculated to silence, intimidate, and completely extinguish a known dissenting voice," he recounted.