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Dennis Miracle Aboagye [L] and President John Mahama
Dennis Miracle Aboagye, former Communications Director of Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia’s campaign for the 2024 elections has vowed that the opposition will relentlessly ensure that the National Democratic Congress (NDC) government fulfills its promise to cancel unpopular taxes.
Speaking on Point Blank on Eyewitness News on Citi FM, Aboagye stressed that Ghanaians voted based on the commitments made by the NDC, particularly its pledge to remove the e-levy, betting tax, and other levies introduced under the previous administration.
“For the budget, I am looking forward to the cancellation of the betting tax, e-levy, COVID tax, and all other taxes they promised to cancel because that is the promise they made to the people of this country.
They hold it as a responsibility to us to fulfill that promise, and we will hold their feet to the fire,” he asserted.
His remarks signal a shift in how the opposition intends to engage with the current administration.
While acknowledging that the NDC was previously critical of these taxes, Aboagye insisted that they now have no excuse to maintain them.
“The president must fulfill his promise because they told us at the time the e-levy was introduced that they were going to cancel it. They described it as a draconian tax that imposed a lot of hardship on the people,” he noted.
Aboagye further dismissed any potential justification for the continuation of these taxes, emphasizing that failure to remove them would amount to “the grandest deception the country has ever experienced.”
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