Is public finance that difficult? That was how David Ndii recently opened his tweet responding to media reports of delays in payment of civil service salaries on the back of similar gloomy headlines depicting the government as broke.
While other State mandarins have opted to stay behind the curtains as rumours of a struggling government circle, even as some public servants go without their March salaries, Dr Ndii, the chairperson of the Presidential Council of Economic Advisers, has not been one to bury his head in his hands.