A Vice President of IMANI Africa, Bright Simons has said he struggled to understand the decision by the previous government to prosecute former Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG) Dr Johnson Asiama who is currently nominated as Governor.
Bright Simons notes that the previous government turned policy issues into criminal indictments against Dr Asiama, an action he considered bizarre.
Speaking on NewsFile on Joy FM last Saturday, February 15, he said " The decision to prosecute or not is not entirely legal because there are a lot of public policy considerations that go into it.
This matter [Asiama's trial] was extremely interesting because, in the banking and finance sector it is not only the legal issues that are important, there are other issues around macro-fiscal stability and others that are important.
