By: Eric Murphy Asare

Former chief of defense staff and former Ghanaian Soldier, Brigadier Joseph Nunoo Mensah who is part of the Pensioners bond holders’ forum says he is bitter about the decision of the government to include individual bonds on the domestic debt restructuring program dubbed Domestic Debt Exchange Program (DDEP).

The individual bondholders have been picketing at the finance ministry for government to exempt their bonds, in an interview with Sompa Tv/Fm news and monitored by this portal, General Brigadier Nunoo Mensah said, it’s disheartening to see young men and women roaming on the streets without employment, a situation he has described as “a bunch of lazy people”.

The former National Security Advisor blamed the government for digging his hands into pensioners' money and said they will defend what is rightfully theirs.

“There’s something we call self-defense, if you put your hand in my throat and I have to defend myself I can also kill you, when you put pressure that far, there are young women and men on the streets without jobs, and one day they will rush unless you wake up and do the right thing, and we can do it, we just need to sit up, put together people with brains to sit down and tasked them” he retorted.

He said he’s not happy with the way the government is handling the DDEP, and that the emergence of the DDEP will put pressure on individuals who feed others.

“There are about at least 25 to 30 people that I give money to every day, when the government is digging its hands into my money, the government in effect is killing those people because they are hungry, he angrily said.

Source//Sompaonline.com/Gh.