‘Don’t blame us’ – NPP locked Ghana into IMF spending rules, says Ato Forson

“It is President Akufo-Addo and his government that took Ghana to the IMF and agreed to this conditionality, unless they want me and President Mahama, because it’s President Mahama’s budget, to derail the IMF program, so that we spend as if there’s no tomorrow, crash the economy again, and go back to economic crisis with a haircut.”He insists the Mahama administration is merely fulfilling binding commitments made by the previous Akufo-Addo government under Ghana’s $3 billion International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme.“The NPP committed Ghana into an IMF program, signed an agreement with the IMF and borrowed $3 billion from them, and committed us, this government, that we would do 1.