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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When have times ever been good since after Nkrumah? It bores me to the rafters when so called celebrities and educated people ignore realities of global downturns and jump of the propaganda bandwagon to lament the same old b0ring chorus of times are hard. France a first world country is currently its knees with violent protests. UK has been in austerity for almost 10 years. The least said about USA the better. All we do in Ghana is talk pure $hite. If times are to be soft, then we all need the mindset of weaning ourselves of the foreign aid support, IMF and world bank directives, take control of our oil and mineral export revenues and use the profits to build Ghana as others like UAE and the Scandinavians have done by supporting the government rather than this times are hard bu!!$h!T.
Yvonne Nelson, please do something for yourself. Ghana have been hard since I was born. It become worse if the government is incompetent for example the Mahama led NDC in recent past.
You don't free money anymore. Work, you lazy brat!!!
So the strategy these so-called celebrities use to get attention these days is to simply go on social media and say times are hard, without mentioning anything specific that is hard. Then the news outlets will take it up and they will be trending. When that phrase runs out of fashion, they will look for something else. Keep it up!
Who has paid you Yvonne to speak against the government
You see NPP, when this woman organized vigil about dumsor they supported her and gained political mileage, today they are insulting her for speaking her mind. But what they don,t know is that a lot of people don,t have the opportunity to talk about the situation in Ghana today. Things are really really BAD and the hardships are just too too much. Nothing seems to be working in Ghana today. very terrible. Mr. president, please woke up from your slumber.
GHANAIANS COMPLAIN TOO MUCH. NO WONDER WE DON'T PROGRESS. AKUFFO ADDO INHERITED A VERY COR---RUP---T AND BAD COUNTRY TO RULE. GIVE HIM TIME AND SUPPORT HIM TO DO THE BEST. NDC UNDER MAHAMA MESSED GHANA UP THAN ANY OTHER PRESIDENT. WHY GHANAIANS WOULD WANT THIS MO...RON....AND COR....RUP....T GUY BACK AS PRESIDENT BEATS MY MIND AND IMAGINATION. THE REASON WHY YOU THINK GHANA IS HARD IS BECAUSE NPP IS TRYING TO MINIMIZE COR---RUP----TION, SO THE MONEY IS KINDA OF HARD TO COME BY. UNDER NDC, EVEN BUKUM BANKO EARNED A SALARY FOR DOING NOTHING BECAUSE OF COR----RUP---TION. NOW, SUCH CHEAP MONEY IS NO MORE, THAT IS WHY YOU ARE FEELIGN THE PINCH. THAT IS WHAT WE NEED. TIGHT ECONOMY SO THE ECONOMY CAN BE STABLE IN TERMS OF COMMODITY PRICING AND SALARY.
U DEMONSTRATED AGAINST MAHAMA TOGETHER WIF UR CELEBRITIES AND TODAY U OPEN UR MOUTH AND SAY GHANA IS HARD.SIASEM.GO TO NANA COS U CAMPAIGN FOR HIM.
Younne Nelson am happy u r feeling the heat. U see after campaigning for Nana Addo see how NPP supporters are trolling u here. Such is Life. NPP supporters are jx not being objective.
Ghanafour kasa. Leave the government to rule. You think implementing free SHS is easy, right? By 2020 you will experience great progress in this country