Economy can’t be performing well if government is borrowing to pay salaries – Gideon Boako

The Deputy Ranking Member on Parliament's Finance Committee and Member of Parliament for Tano North, Dr Gideon Boako, has questioned the government's claims of strong economic performance, arguing that an economy cannot be described as healthy if it continues to borrow to finance recurrent expenditure such as public sector salaries and the Free Senior High School (Free SHS) programme.“An economy described as doing well should not be borrowing to pay salaries and fund Free SHS as we are seeing under this government,” he said.

Dr Boako maintained that a genuinely strong economy should be capable of generating sufficient domestic revenue to finance key government programmes without resorting to borrowing for routine expenditure.