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Kwesi Pratt Jnr. has predicted economic doom for the Akufo-Addo administration in the year 2018.
According to the Managing Editor of the Insight Newspaper, next year will not be a better year economically for the government, due to some challenges that he foresees the current administration will be bedevilled with.
The seasoned journalist was commenting on the 2018 Budget Statement and Economic Policy that will be presented by Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta on the floor of Parliament on Wednesday, November 15.
The sector Minister will appear before the House to update legislators and Ghanaians on government's expenditure and financial obligations.
The first budget statement delivered by the government since its inception was presented to Parliament by the Finance Minister on March 2, 2017.
Contributing to a panel discussion on Peace FM's 'Kokrokoo', Tuesday, Mr. Pratt called on the government to be truthful to Ghanaians on the real state of the economy since they came into power.
Mr. Pratt insisted his "prediction for next year is not good. Based on what IMF has said. Based on what IFS has said. Based on analysis I’ve read from various think tanks and so on, the situation for 2018 is not looking good".
He noted that it will help the nation if the government can stop playing games with Ghanaians and come clean on how the country is faring under the Akufo-Addo leadership.
“If you tell people that everything is alright that since we came, everything is progressing and they find out the next morning that there has been petrol price increase; how would they understand you? If you tell them that everything is alright and the next morning the person checks his/her pocket and it’s empty, how can they understand you? If today you tell everyone that everything is alright and the next morning the person’s child is sick and he/she can’t afford hospital bills, how can you explain it?” he rhetorically quizzed.
To him, "it is time to speak truthfully and forcefully about the state of the national economy. This government is not lucky.”
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Go and pay your share of the Woyome loot into state coffers and the economy will bounce back. Fiafitor, ***barred word***, ole, if people like you have not straddled the corridors of power, our economy wouldn't have been in the state it is today.
THIS DISGRACEFUL BEING WHO UNFORTUNATELY IS SUPPOSED TO BE PART OF THE HUMAN RACE, WILL PREDICT GLOOM AND DOOM LIKE HIS PRE-ELECTION ONE. "ALL DOCTOR'S ANNUAL LEAVE AND SICK LEAVE SHOULD BE CANCELLED BECAUSE THEY WILL BE NEEDED TO TAKE CARE OF ALL THE N.P.P BIG-WIGS THAT WILL COLLAPSE AND RUSHED TO HOSPITAL" REMEMBER THAT PREDICTION? IT IS THE SAME PERSON TALKING NOW SO HIS EVIL WISH FOR NANA ADDO IN PARTICULAR AND THE N.P.P PARTY IN GENERAL IS OPEN SECRET. AB*AFUNU LIKE HIM WHAT DO YOU EXPECT.
NOT SUPRISING AT ALL FOR KWESI PRATT TO CHURNING OUT SUCH WORDS! AFTERALL, YOU DON'T HAVE TO EXPECT A DIE-HARD NDC FUN LIKE KWESI PRATT TO PASS ANY POSITIVE COMMENTS ABOUT THIS GOV'T. BESIDES, THE NDC MINORITY ORGANIZED A PRESS CONFERENCE TO SAY THE SAME THING; SO WERE GHANAIANS EXPECTING MR. PRATT TO 'SING' A DIFFERENT 'SONG'??? ITS SUCH A PITTY THAT A MAN AS OLD AS HIS AGE CAN ALLOW HIMSELF TO BE USED IN THIS MANNER!!!
BUT WHO SAID KWESI PRATT WILL EVER SAY ANYTHING GOOD TO THE NPP GOVERNMENT? WHEN DID KWESI PRATT BECOME AN ECONOMIC WIZARD? DID KWESI PRATT CONSULT THE OCCULT WITH HIS NDC COHORTS AND SABOTEURS? ANYWAY, 2018 WILL BE FULL OF ECONOMIC GOOD NEWS, WITH ABUNDANCE OF FOOD AND JOBS, AND KWESI PRATT AND HIS CO-PERSIMISTS WILL LAUGHT THE WRONG SIDE OF THEIR MOUTH.
This is nothing but a smart way of giving credibility to the minority wild claims they put out about the economy. We know who is talking and will take his wild prediction of the economy with a pinch of salt. Who doesn't know that our economy is challenged but this government is making some strides.
HYPOCRISY AND DISHONESTY IS WHAT IS KILLING THIS NATION WRECKER AND A CHARLATAN. DID KWASI PRATT DEMAND THE TRUTH FROM HIS PAYMASTERS WHEN HE WAS ON THE PAY ROLL FOR PEDDLING PROPAGANDA AND DECEIT. SINCE WHEN DID THIS MORON REALISE THAT OUR FINANCES AS A NATION IS NOT GOOD? WHY DID HE NOT BE SINCERE AND REFUSE THE FREEBIES WHEN THE PREVIOUS GOVERNMENT WERE WASTING OUR RESOURCES ON ***barred word*** VENTURES LIKE BUYING V.8'S TO PEOPLE LIKE AKUA DONKOR AND SOME SYCOPHANTIC CHIEFS AND PARTY PROPAGANDISTS? YOU ARE NOW SUFFERING BECAUSE YOUR NAME HAS BEEN REMOVED FROM THE STATE PAY ROLL FOR LYING ON BEHALF OF A ***barred word*** GOVERNMENT. SO CRY YOUR OWN CRY MR. PRATT