An Accra High Court has slammed the government for failing to fulfill its widely publicized promise to make the private sector the engine of growth. In a ruling on March 11 involving the Customs, Excise and Preventive Services (CEPS) and the Ghana National Association of Poultry Farmers over the withdrawal of the new tariffs on poultry, the presiding Judge, Justice Ivy Ashong-Yakubu explained that the ?government had come into power under the slogan: ?the private sector is the engine of growth? or words to that effect, raising the hopes of business men and women who may have relied on such words of exhortation to contract loans at exorbitant rates of interests to revamp their businesses or start new ones.?
