There is no way we could have chopped that money. Most of it were project loans. He said the money was administered by the donors and they sometimes decided on contractors who should work on the projects. Usually the contractors and suppliers come from the home countries of hte donors and they are paid directly. In any case, every country owes money.
Every country borrows money for development.
We borrow externally because we don't have. That there are NPP Ministers in the present Government who took away cars for about 4 million when they were in public office. Yet they are mute on it. People like H. H. Mensah and Nana Akuffo Addo and the rest took 20 million each is ex-gratia, but they did not talk about it. He said the NPP claimed that if they came to power they would abolish school fees, cash and carry and double workers' wages.