{"id":109185,"date":"2025-12-30T20:29:02","date_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:29:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=109185"},"modified":"2025-12-30T20:29:02","modified_gmt":"2025-12-30T20:29:02","slug":"keeping-ofori-atta-for-8-years-was-akufo-addos-worst-decision-winston-amoah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=109185","title":{"rendered":"Keeping Ofori-Atta for 8 years was Akufo-Addo\u2019s worst decision \u2013 Winston Amoah"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Deputy Head of the JoyNews Political Desk and co-host of Joy FM Super Morning Show, Winston Amoah, has described former President Nana Akufo-Addo\u2019s decision to retain Ken Ofori-Atta as Finance Minister for eight years as one of the most damaging choices of his administration.<\/p>\n

Contributing to discussions on JoyNews\u2019 2025 Year in Review<\/strong> on Tuesday, December 30, Mr Amoah argued that the prolonged tenure of the former finance minister had negative consequences for the country\u2019s economic management.<\/p>\n

According to him, appointing and retaining an investment banker to oversee public finances for such an extended period was ill-advised.<\/p>\n

\u201cI have always insisted that the last person you want to put in charge is an investment banker. With all due respect to investment bankers, if they take your money and trade with it and make a loss, they pass that loss on to you,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

Mr Amoah maintained that the former president should have heeded calls from within his own party for Mr Ofori-Atta\u2019s removal, particularly in 2022, when internal dissent over the handling of the economy intensified.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe last thing that should have happened was to have kept Ken Ofori-Atta for the eight years. It was a bad decision by Akufo-Addo. When his own party came up and said he should sack him in 2022, he should have done that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n

Mr Amoah\u2019s comments form part of broader reflections during the 2025 Year in Review<\/em> programme, which examined key political decisions, economic policies, and governance challenges that shaped the outgoing year.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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