After
Counsel for the petitioners, Philip Addison, ended his fourteen (14)
days of cross examining Chairman for the Electoral Commission, Dr.
Kwadwo Afari Gyan, the ball is now in the bosom of the nine-member panel
sitting on the case.
But as Ghanaians await the outcome of the
election petition, the former Chief of Staff and member of the ruling
National Democratic Congress (NDC), Alex Segbefia appears to have some
qualms over the repercussions of the petition on the economy.
Speaking
on Radio Gold, the NDC guru reiterated his position that the petition
filed by three leaders of the New Patriotic Party has a negative
consequence on the nation.
Addressing his point on the station’s
newspaper review, Mr. Segbefia said the petition has affected business
and investment causing a slowdown in economic activity.
According
to him, the long days of pursuing the case in court coupled with the
live telecast of the petition has obviously run the economy into
deficits.
He noted that “the cost to the nation financially,
development-wise; has been devastating. And I’m sure when the final
report come for 2013, the amount of investment; the amount of activities
will be quite clear that in the first six or first two quarters of this
year, things were not as they should have been. And there would have
been some form of a slowdown in economic activity” as a result of the
petition.
“The petition has affected businesses internally in
terms of people who want to invest and people who are looking to see
what is going to happen and also even with respect to foreign direct
investment,” he added. |
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