The man of God also questioned Mahama\u2019s decision to repeal the Electronic Transfer Levy (E-Levy) law, when he assumes office as president of the republic in 2025.<\/p>\n
Addressing the nation on the theme \u2018Ghana at the crossroads\u2019 Mr. Mahama said the E-levy is only a distortionary and burdensome tax that only forces Ghanaians to pay more while suffering.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n
\u201cUnfortunately in the face of this self-inflicted economic catastrophe, this government against all sound advise has decided to introduce the E-Levy that heaps more suffering on Ghanaians<\/em>,\u201d Mr. Mahama said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cA new national democratic congress government, God willing, with the votes of the sovereign people of Ghana, in 2025 will repeal the E-Levy act<\/em>,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n But reacting to the former president\u2019s position on Friday, May 6, 2022, Bishop Ayensu described the pronouncement by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) leader as backward and an attempt to sway voters.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cA leading opposition party says this government has been borrowing to fund projects. But it [the government] has been strategic this time to introduce this homegrown policy to build our nation. So if someone says he will repeal this law when he wins power then such a person will not even win power to abort it.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div>\n \u201cIf the E-levy is a good policy why will you abolish it? Such people can\u2019t even do it because history keeps guiding us. Such comments usually end up as a political talk and deceit<\/em>,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n He called on Ghanaians to help push the government\u2019s agenda to industrialize the country under the leadership of the president, Nana Akuffo Addo.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n The Bishop was interviewed by journalists on the sidelines of the Methodist Church\u2019s 25th Synod at the Mount Zion Methodist Church at Obuasi in the Ashanti Region.<\/p>\n source:evans effah<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The man of God also questioned Mahama\u2019s decision to repeal the Electronic Transfer Levy (E-Levy) law, when he assumes office as president of the republic in 2025. Addressing the nation on the theme \u2018Ghana at the crossroads\u2019 Mr. Mahama said the E-levy is only a distortionary and burdensome tax that only forces Ghanaians to pay […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":21313,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12487,7455,2244,2971,9042,6537,6693,913,5446,9643,192,12502,1445,2264,10342,9974,130,281,1745,3805,371,1502,6348,3954,3124],"class_list":["post-21312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-agenda","tag-ashanti","tag-ashanti-region","tag-bishop","tag-borrowing","tag-church","tag-congress","tag-democratic","tag-e-levy","tag-fund","tag-ghana","tag-ghanaians","tag-god","tag-government","tag-law","tag-leadership","tag-mahama","tag-ndc","tag-obuasi","tag-president","tag-president-of-the-republic","tag-tax","tag-us","tag-will","tag-zion"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=21312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/21313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}