Former CJ Sophia Akuffo Joins Bondholders To Picket at Finance Ministry

Former Chief Justice of Ghana, Sophia Akuffo has joined the Pensioner Bondholders Forum to picket at the Finance Ministry to demand a total exemption of their investments from the Domestic Debt Exchange programme.

The pensioners have been picketing at the premises of the ministry since Monday, February 6, 2023.

Spotted seated in a chair at the premises of the Ministry of Finance was the former Chief Justice who had in hand a wooden placard that read, “We use our bond yields to pay our: rents, medical bills, electricity, water bills.”

Many pensioners have complained bitterly about the Domestic Debt Exchange programme, begging the government to exempt them as it is destroying their lives.

However, the Finance minister Ken Ofori-Atta has warned that if individual bondholders are exempted from the ongoing DDEP, Ghana’s economy will be a big mess.