{"id":114286,"date":"2026-02-06T03:31:00","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=114286"},"modified":"2026-02-06T03:31:00","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T03:31:00","slug":"imf-should-move-its-headquarters-to-ghana-if-we-cant-manage-after-exit-gncci-ceo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sotnews.agency\/?p=114286","title":{"rendered":"IMF should move its headquarters to Ghana if we can\u2019t manage after exit \u2013 GNCCI CEO"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The Ghana National Chamber of Commerce and Industry (GNCCI) CEO, Mark Badu-Aboagye, has warned Ghana\u2019s political leadership that the country cannot continue to return to the International Monetary Fund (IMF) if it is serious about economic independence.<\/p>\n

Speaking on Joy News\u2019 PM Express Business Edition on Thursday, he said Ghana\u2019s repeated reliance on IMF programmes has become a national embarrassment.<\/p>\n

According to him, the country must maintain fiscal discipline and the reforms that typically accompany such arrangements.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf we [Ghana] continuously do what we are doing, then that means that we should be under IMF for life,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

He argued that if Ghana exits an IMF programme and still fails to manage its economy, then the country has effectively surrendered its sovereignty and should stop pretending otherwise.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf after the exit of the IMF, we cannot manage our economy, then the IMF should bring their head office here and control us,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n

Mr Badu-Aboagye said the private sector\u2019s frustration is rooted in Ghana\u2019s long-running cycle of economic instability, in which reforms are embraced only under external pressure and quickly abandoned once the programme ends.<\/p>\n

He maintained that Ghana has already implemented key IMF-backed measures, and there is no justification for walking away from them simply because the country has \u201cexited\u201d the programme.<\/p>\n

\u201cThis is because all the things that they have asked us to do, that we have done, I think we should continue,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

The GNCCI CEO warned that deviating from the \u201cfundamental changes\u201d introduced under IMF supervision is exactly why Ghana keeps returning to the Fund.<\/p>\n

\u201cThere shouldn\u2019t be any reason why we should deviate from these important fundamental changes that the IMF have brought to us; that is why we keep going there,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n

Badu-Aboagye also criticised the political narrative that often surrounds IMF engagement, where the Fund is portrayed as an enemy or an unwanted force, even though governments repeatedly seek its support when the economy runs into trouble.<\/p>\n

He noted that Ghana has gone to the IMF \u201c17 times,\u201d yet public discourse still treats IMF programmes as a humiliation rather than a corrective framework for discipline.<\/p>\n

\u201cI mean 17 times, and anytime you go there, it\u2019s as if the IMF is a devil, that when they come, we don\u2019t want to go there,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

His comments come amid renewed debate over Ghana\u2019s economic direction and whether the country can maintain stability without resorting to external bailouts.<\/p>\n

For the private sector, the GNCCI CEO\u2019s remarks reflect a deeper concern: that Ghana\u2019s policy inconsistency and weak commitment to reforms continue to undermine investor confidence and long-term planning.<\/p>\n

Mr Badu-Aboagye\u2019s central argument was that Ghana\u2019s problem is not a lack of knowledge about what must be done, but an inability to sustain those actions beyond IMF supervision.<\/p>\n

By insisting that the reforms should continue even after an exit, he positioned the IMF not as the source of Ghana\u2019s hardship, but as a mirror reflecting Ghana\u2019s own failure to sustain discipline.<\/p>\n

His warning was simple: if Ghana cannot manage after an IMF programme, then the country has no business celebrating exits, because the dependency has already become permanent.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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