Award-winning actress and activist Yvonne Nelson has taken to Twitter to rant about hardship in Ghana.
The actress known for speaking her mind on a myriad of issues took to Twitter to post that times are hard for a lot of Ghanaians and things are going bad.
She wrote: “Things are hard in this country!!!! It’s that bad!!!!!!”
This solicited generally affirmative reactions from her followers who shared their own evidence of the hardship they are confronted with in their lives while others tried to motivate her.
This follows after a popular leader of the Shatta Movement, Shatta Wale also called on the President and the government to do all within their means to solve the hardship in the system. He also said there is a lot of suffering.
Again, outspoken academic Ransford Gyampo called on the Akufo-Addo government to fix the hardships facing Ghanaians and stop the “mediocre” exercise of comparing their performance to the erstwhile John Mahama administration.
According to him, the government may not be fully able to appreciate the challenges Ghanaians are going through because it’s supporters are not speaking up or have become sycophantic.
In a Facebook post, Prof. Gyampo noted “When people are suffering, you don’t tell them you are better managers than the NDC. Comparing your performance to a regime that suffered such a monumental defeat is a tacit admission of failure and mediocrity. Please communicate a better explanation because you are reputed to be the most competent person in pontificating about issues relating to the economy.
Meanwhile, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has admitted the economy of Ghana is going through some trying times.
He has, however, dismissed concerns that these difficulties amount to a crisis; assuring his audience that the government is on top of the situation.
Speaking to the Ghanaian Community in New York, USA, Mr Akufo-Addo attributed the difficulties in the system to the “dramatic increase in crude oil prices” and the strengthening of the US dollar.
President Akufo-Addo admits that has led to “a significant and rapid depreciation of the cedi” but was quick to add that the Bank of Ghana is fighting the depreciation.
“We have to approach the foreign exchange matter medium to long-term by expanding our supply base, that’s not a crisis…they’re difficulties the system would be able to accommodate…” the President said.
He added that his government will work to find a cure to the situation and future ones.
“It’s a difficult situation, but a difficult situation also require some amount of fortitude and firm action and that’s what we are trying to do at home,” he said.
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Know wonder your name is condom. Get up from that your 1azy a$$ and go look for job maybe if you were to apply for the NABCO you would have been pay 700 or 1500 Gh. Cedis this month than to sit in front of your computer all day earning thing and complaining about the sinking boat in YOUR LIVE.
Yvonne, get ready it is going to be harder than this for you because the free money you so called celebrity use to get under the incompentent one will not come anymore. Start doing something in addition to your acting. Deloris Frimpong will never complain because he is doing other businesses in addition to her job.
As if Manna use to fall from skies 8yrs ago and in just 2yrs of this gov't it has stop. Ghanaians and their 1azy celebrities who's monies have lock-up at MANZGOLD should chase NAM1 for their monies and stop complaining that the country is hard.
WE COMPLAIN JUST LIKE THE ISRAELITE'S. AFTER BEING IN SLAVERY FOR 400 YEARS,AND BEING RESCUE BY THE GREAT HAND OF GOD THROUGH MOSES. JUST BECAUSE OF FOOD THE WISH TO GO BACK TO THEIR SALVE MASTERS IN EGYPT. AH! WHAT IS WRONG WITH ALL THIS CELEBRITIES COMPLAINING OF THINGS BEING HARD THIS DAYS. YOU ARE ALL PARSING MAHAMA FOR AIRPORT TERMINAL 3, IN ANY CASE HOW MANY GHANAIAN'S CAN TRAVEL THROUGH TERMINAL 3. YOU ARE PRAISING SOMETHING YOU DON'T SPENT YOU LIFE THERE OR SLEEP THERE, YOU JUST PAST THROUGH FOR MINUTE AND GO TO YOUR HOMES AND NOT SOME THING THAT IS BEING INVESTED IN THE LIFE OF YOUR PEOPLE FOREVER. AT LEAST EVERY FAMILY MEMBER IN THIS COUNTRY IS BENEFITI
In Ghana when anyone goes broke it's the government fault.What a country? Ghanaians want quality movies to watch.If you will take your time and write beautiful stories and act like it's real, you will never go broke.If you are broke as an actress, check your acting
Because of this free SHS, we should not eat. When Mahama was busy building infrastructures, NPP was asking if that is what they will eat!!!! We are talking of hard time and you are tell us about free SHS? Will that failed policy put food on our table? So we shouldn't say anything because of your ***barred word*** free SHS policy? ***barred word*** !!!!!!
Are we going to eat free SHS. Is that all there is for NPP. Everything "Free SHS". How about those who don't have children at the SHS?. Allow people to complain objectively and factual. You people don't feel the heat bcos you have been given laptops and huge monthly salaries at the Jubilee House to throw out those thrash9?
BORN ONE DE33 SO NORR GO HAPPEN, HAS UR PHOTOGRAPHER BABY DADDY RUN AWAY????
Ivonne, times are hard for you because you are no longer on the ghost payroll anymore. Gone are the days where you get paid for no work done because you are enthused with JDM. Why don't you go to JDM for money? Enka wobete wo piiga. You wil go and meet lordina. As for me, times are not hard becaue I have been relieved of paying school fees for my 4 nephews who are in SSS. The money I will use to pay for their fees I am saving it for other purposes.
When the boat sinks we all will sink together. Why cant we for ones be objective. Things are very hard but some people defend blinding.