The President of the Republic, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has reiterated the commitment of his government to fulfilling all the promises made to the people of Ghana, in the run-up to the December 2016 elections.
According to President Akufo-Addo, despite the difficult circumstances he inherited, his administration, this year, has begun to put in place policies and programmes for the realization of his government’s programme.
“I am very keen that, the promises that we made to the Ghanaian people, the pledges we made about what we would do when we come into office, the people of Ghana see that we are fulfilling those promises. It is important for trust and governance, it is important for trust and politicians, that they should be seen to be people of their word,” he said.
President Akufo-Addo indicated that the era where people make promises, get into office, and then find all kinds of reasons to say they cannot undertake those promises is not good for governance.
“When you commit yourself, it is because you are sure that you can do it, and all the commitments that we have made, gradually, systematically, we are beginning to realize them, because they are things we thought about long and deep in opposition, and we believed that they were the way to put our country on the road to progress and to prosperity,” he added.
President Akufo-Addo made this known on Wednesday, 15th November, 2017, when he interacted with the Ghanaian community resident in Doha, Qatar, as part of his 3-day official visit to that country.
He noted that one of the preoccupations of his government, upon the assumption of office, was to ensure the stabilization of the country’s macro-economy.
President Akufo-Addo noted that he inherited an economy with a fiscal deficit of 9.6%, a growth rate of 3.6%, the lowest in over 20 years, widespread unemployment, ‘dumsor’, and the major issue of corruption.
“So it was necessary to put the macro-economy back into shape, and I believe we have done well already. We committed ourselves to reducing the deficit from 9.6% to 6.3% this year. We are meeting that target,” he said.
Describing the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta as “a magician as far as I am concerned”, President Akufo-Addo noted that, out of nowhere, the Finance Minister has been able “to conjure money for us to finance our programs. Today (Wednesday), he announced in Parliament that we had met the deficit target that we set.”
The Finance Minister, the President added, has also been able to find money for the Akufo-Addo government to implement, within the period of 11 months, three key things, namely the Free SHS Policy, the Programme for Planting for Food and Jobs and the revival of the National Health Insurance Scheme.
Stable power supply
Touching on the country’s power supply, the President stated that “we are not going to get anywhere in the industrial development which we are desperate about if we don’t have reliable supply of power. We can’t get anywhere. Boakye Agyarko, the Minister for Energy, has done a great job first of all in stabilizing the situation.”
The President continued, “We are beginning to forget that there was a time when we had ‘dumsor’ in Ghana. The situation is now stabilizing, and in this year’s budget, we are making a proposal to the PURC to bring down electricity tariffs, to be able to stimulate industrial development.”
All of these are measures, he added, are being put in place to boost the Ghanaian economy, and to serve as the platform for the country’s industrial enterprises to become more competitive.
“That is the way that we are going to create wealth in our country, if our industries are working, expanding, producing and exporting,” President Akufo-Addo noted.
Source: Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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Yes he is a magician a trickster stealing Ghana money for your family to pay your debts. Ghana is wide awake now watching you and your bunch of ***barred word***. Let him trick some people some of the time but definitely not all of us. Magician trickster and a ***barred word*** are all one. ***barred word*** people in power.
Every magician is a trickster
He is a magician because you think his millions of dollars ***barred word*** has been covered. When you are bolted out of power in 2020 then you will know he is not a magician after all. Jail is his destiny, watch out
Ken Ofori Ghanaians do not have COTTON in their head what did you do for us to have stable power ***barred word***.
Now that NDC is dazed with NPP's fulfillment of its promises, are the electorate going to fall for NDC's propaganda again? As for leverage of I.T to win elections, it is a thing of the past. EC cant help it!! Any attempt by EC to help NDC will be countered by NPP. Vigilance at polling stations has come to stay. Office of Special Prosecutor act is here. Captain smart said one woman carried GHC50k in the trunk of her car as a refund of monies she corruptly took form the state when she was invited by EOCO. Can you believe this? If she had not been invited, she was not going to refund. She needs to go to jail after the refund.
Ken Ofori-Atta a "Magician" ? God save this country. Yes he's a magician bcos of his infamous "Ken Bond" in which details of the US$122 million of the bond purchased from the bond market could not be disclosed. He is a magician for spending Ghc177 million to obtain only Ghc700 million from the bond market. He is a magician when he approved and released a whooping US$2.5 million for the "free of charge" Google apps for Ghana post GPS project. Magician indeed; his facial expression during the presentation tells all the story; that he was making fun of Ghanaians and nothing else - simply put; the Akyem Mafia" is milking Ghana very fat and there on saviour. Such people are ruling Ghana today. Magician Indeed.
NANA THANKS BE TO GOD WE PRAY FOR YOUR TEAM AGAIN WE PRAY THE WORDS OF PROVERB 29:2( IT READS WHEN THE RIGHTEOUS ARE IN POWER THE PEOPLE REJOICE)WHEN THE WICKED RULES THE PEOPLE MOURN.HOW CAN YOU BUY CARS AND WILL NOT BUY FUEL FOR THE GENERATORS NPP HAVE COME AND BOUGHT THE FUEL AVOID DUMSOR FOR 10MONTHS WHO SHOULD WE PRAISE.WHAT ABOUT THE CRUDE OIL NPP GOT AND WE CAME TO ENJOY.
It saddens my heart sometimes when i read from these so called ***barred word***$soldiers of ndc and their minority in parliament. what is the logic behind their reasoning? John ford inflicted so many pains into our economy, bus branding, GYEEDA, proper corruption, dumsor for 8 good years. if truly npp have gone for 2.whatever billion bond and for only 10 months in office, are not experiencing dumsor, even as such that, other social interventions that they are putting in place. this free shs thing have there since and since, yet ndc have been in power more than 25 years compare to npp's 8 years 10 month and they have been able to implement the free shs. aaahhbah ndc and its gbobiribirir minority and sympathizers should give us a break.
haters!!!!!!!!!!
great work NPP and greater work shall you do. we are seeing the results and littl by little we will be there. Fiscal deficit gradually reducing and i trust will get to zero soonest. Go Mr. President Go Ghana!!! against go shame la la laaaaaa...