A member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Gabby Asare Otchere-Darko, has lauded the government and, indeed, the Finance Minister for the swiftness with which the staff-level agreement (SLA) with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) was secured.
Ghana wrote to the IMF on Friday, July 1 to seek an extended credit facility (ECF) to save the country from economic downturn.
Within five months negotiations have been completed and a staff-level agreement reached.
The agreement was announced on Tuesday, December 13 at a joint press conference in Accra
Taking to Twitter, Mr Otchere-Darko, who sometimes serves as a lawyer to the Finance Minister, described the time frame for the conclusion of negotiations as “remarkable”.
He, however, could not stop short of praising Ken Ofori-Atta for keeping focus when detractors were “pushing the fake narrative that IMF had no confidence in the head of the Ghanaian team”.
