Legendary Highlife musician Rex Omar believes the current government under President Akufo Addo has ‘raped’ all state institutions so it can have its way.
According to him, the recently passed e-levy will affect all institutions including GHAMRO which he is the president.
He charged the government to improvise scientific and creative ways to get citizens in the informal sector pay taxes rather than forcing the controversial electronic taxing system on them.
“Ghanaians are against how the government has mismanaged our money but not against taxes. The NPP government’s interest is not the money they are expecting to get from the E – levy. They are interested in just collateralizing the E-levy so that they can continue to borrow.
“As a serious government that has gone round to seek the opinion of the people, if they care and respect the people who elected them, they will find a different way to make revenue without finding dubious means to force the E – levy down the throat of the people,” he stated.
Whiles speaking in an interview on 3FM’s Sunrise morning show, the ‘Abiba’ singer expressed disappointment in the current NPP government’s alleged tribalistic approach to doing things.
“It is like a clique, which have had their way by tricky means to impose themselves on this country. We have been under NPP before. Kuffuor’s NPP was completely different from this one. This particular NPP is the most reckless. They want to bamboozle their way with all matters. This is dangerous and it is wrong.
“Look, something is wrong and the earlier everybody speaks up, the better. The way things are going in the next two years, another government will come. I pity the next government. I pity the next president. There is so much damage that will take Ghana a long time to recover what these people have done within a period of six years to Ghana,” he added.
He indicated that citizens wouldn’t mind forfeiting 50% of their salaries to help rebuild the country if political leaders have well managed the country with transparency.
Source: Modern Ghana
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