Former lecturer at Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), Dr. Richard Amoako Baah, has urged Ghanaians to keep pressing President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo for accountability despite his resistance to do so.

He is especially worried about Ghana's current economic crisis, which he claims has the potential to cause the system as a whole to crash.

Despite the difficulties, he is concerned that the president is not taking advice and is being permitted to rule the country whatever he pleases.

He asserts that the current situation must alter.

“You advise him, he doesn’t take it. There is nothing left for you to do but to be quiet and watch him.

“It is our country; it belongs to all of us and it is about time we stand up and stop behaving as if the country belongs to the President and his friends and family and cronies and we are just guest workers in it.

“We are not. If we don’t speak up now. There will be nothing left, pretty much right now, nothing left,” he said in an interview on Joy FM, September 29.

Amoako Baah despite being a member of the governing New Patriotic Party, NPP, has been very critical of the president and his government especially with their handling of the economy.

Rising cost of living, galloping inflation and a depreciating Ghana Cedi are some of the main pointers to the economic crisis that Ghanaians are putting up with.

The government is in talks with the International Monetary Fund, IMF, for a reported US$3 billion rescue facility to help stabilize the economy and reset it on the path of growth.

Government has partly blamed the Russia-Ukraine war and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic for the headwinds, insisting that all was being done to stem the tide.