Vice-President of Ghana, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, has said that he has not abandoned matters on the economy, as some Ghanaians claim.
He said this whiles addressing participants in this year’s agricultural students career guidance and mentorship dialogue bootcamp (AG-STUD Africa Bootcamp 2022) at the Jubilee House in Accra last Monday, March 28, 2021 on the theme: “Digitalisation”.
According to him, “Sometimes people say ‘well, we thought you were an economist, but you’re doing so much in the IT space. Have you left economics behind?” And then he replied: “No, no, not at all. In fact, it is because of the economy that I am focusing on digitisation because without building those pillars, our economy will just not be able to stand on its own feet”, he said.
He added that, “Coming into government and heading the Economic Management Team, the president gave me that mandate and opportunity to focus on how best we can transform and modernise the country to make sure that some of the challenges and risks people are facing in our economy, how we mitigate those risks, how we can make this economy efficient — this is why I have focused on digitalisation.
And so we decided to address some of the major bottlenecks that businesses face in the agricultural sector through digitalisation”, he explained.