According to him, current findings indicate that the effects of COVID-19 has brought to bare the relevance of social democratic policies and principles that promotes social security and social protection policies. He stressed that the government of Ghana, as it is, has no reason to shy away from discussions bordering around social protection. There is no excuse for government to use the usual mantra of “there is no money” to avoid a discussion on the nature of social protection badly needed by our countrymen and women. He urged that governments and businesses on the African continent, must not see social protection as a cost but as an investment while asking the Finance Ministry and the Economic Management team to create a fiscal space to enable the government invest in the provision of social protection. Social protection cannot find space in the budget after you have created new offices in government to overburden the consolidated fund.”“Certainly, social protection cannot be a priority, when you annually make payment orders for the purchase of ammunitions for the security institutions to use to brutalise the very people who are in need of social protection,” he added.

Source: GhanaWeb September 22, 2021 17:03 UTC