‘You will pay back Akufo-Addo loans’ – Mahama urges youth to be concerned

The 2020 NDC flagbearer, John Mahama, has urged youth to be interested in the government’s borrowing, pointing out that they would shoulder the burden of repayment.

Speaking in Nadowli in the Upper West region last week, he pointed out that the Akufo-Addo government has racked up more than 137bn cedis within four years.

“What have you done with it? That is the question we must enter this election with” he drew the attention of his audience.

John Mahama explained that by the “natural order of things”, Akufo-Addo has a shorter time to live than he does.

President Akufo-Addo is 76 years and would be 80 years by the time he completes a second term in 2025. His rival, John Mahama, is 60 years old and would be 64 years if he wins the 2020 presidential term.

If an old president enters into agreements for loans, he would be burdening the youth to pay back while he is not likely to be alive to contribute to the repayment, he explained.

“That debt he is not going to pay it. Maybe, I am not going to pay it. It is you, our children, and our children’s children who is going to pay.”

“Young people can die, I agree. But if the natural order is to be maintained, somebody who is 20 years here is going to live many be the next 50 years.”

“I, at my age, I am going to live shorter, Akufo-Addo is going to live shorter because at his age in the natural order of things if everybody is going according to his age he has a shorter time.”

“No, I am making a point, because that debt, he is not going to pay.”

“The youth must take this seriously,” Mahama urged the youth.