There is no unanimity in the home of former President Jerry John Rawlings with respect to how the country is being managed at the moment by the Akufo-Addo administration.
Mr Rawlings and wife, Konadu Agyeman Rawlings on one side, appear very conformable with the administration of the New Patriotic Party (NPP) and at the least opportunity praise President Akufo-Addo, however, their daughter is holding a different view.
Zanetor, who is for now, the only active politician among the children of the former first couple, has reportedly said that the current situation, is so bad that even the governing party’s supporters are the ones complaining.
The Korle Klottey Member of Parliament (MP) says she never expected economic condition of Ghanaians to be this difficult as it is being experienced currently under the Akufo-Addo government.
“The things I didn’t expect was to see things become as difficult for every Ghanaian as they are now”, she stated in an interview monitored by MyNewsgh.com.
The NPP on the back of very flamboyant campaign coupled with persuasive promises, lured many Ghanaians to their side, leading to them winning the 2016 general election massively.
Following this, Mrs. Rawlings said she was excited the party her husband founded, the National Democratic Congress (NDC) was out of power and a new administration is in-charge.
Speaking on Joy FM, Mrs. Rawlings said “I am happy there is a change… I am very happy…because you can’t have a situation where we claim to be doing well, calling ourselves lower-middle income group, and in a miserable situation,” she stated.
She jabbed the NDC for complaining that the government has not done enough to transform the lives of Ghanaians.
She said, the opposition party should not expect the NPP to use 100 days to fix an economy which was destroyed in eight years.
“A party has taken eight years to destroy us and you expect somebody to use 100 days to fix it?” she rhetorically asked.
But as if she has not been listening to her parents tout President Akufo-Addo, the first daughter of the former first former couple, Zenator, has joined the fray jabbing the government for visiting untold economic hardship on Ghanaians.
She is incensed with the current state of affairs and has gone public with it.
Almost two years into their administration, Ghanaians are complaining like never before with regular fuel increment, tax increment, port charges and so on.
The lawmaker, said even though it is the right of Ghanaians to choose who they want as President, the NPP, has shocked many, especially their supporters who voted massively for them.
“The whole idea of having elections and democracy is for people to choose whom they prefer governing the state, but I don’t think even those who overwhelmingly voted in favour of expected things to be as bad as they are today”, Zanator stressed.
For now, it seems Mr Rawlings and a few others in government, like Vice President, Dr. Bawumia are the ones, who are not experiencing the hardship. The Trades Union Congress (TUC), traders, ordinary Ghanaian s, as well as the President, have all expressed similar concerns admitting there is indeed hardship.
Addressing Ghanaian Community in New York, USA, President Akufo-Addo, attributed the difficulties in the system to the “dramatic increase in crude oil prices” and the strengthening of the US dollar.
He blamed the significant and rapid depreciation of the cedi for the difficulty, adding that the Bank of Ghana (BoG) is working round the clock to change the situation in order to inure to the benefit of the citizenry
“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…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.
Source: The Herald
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In fact, I am a die-hard NPP but truth be told YOU ARE VERY BEAUTIFUL... Two kisses for you, my dear. You fine well well.....
GHANAIANS WILL FOREVER BE FOOOOUUUUUULLLLLL AND REMAIN FOOUUOOUUUOOLLLSSSS WITH THEIR GENERATIONS TILL THE END OF THE WORLD. SHZANETOR IS A CITIZEN,WITH EVERY RIGHT TO SPEAK HER MIND AS WELL AS GHANAIAN CITIZENS. SHE IS PART OF GHANA, SHE IS A GHANAIAN, SHE HAS THE RIGHT, MOUTH TO SPEAK HER MIND AS ANYOTHER CITIZENS. THOSE INSULTING HER,YOU WILL FOREVER REMAIN THE FOOOOUUUULLLSSS
Just wants to be heard
Look who is talking now ? One day the judge of all judges will judge whatever has been done under the sun both hidden and seen.
ARE YOU PART OF THE PROBLEM OR THE SOLUTION? GHANA'S PROBLEMS ORIGINATED FROM YOUR FATHER'S MISGUIDED ADVENTURE.WHO THE CUP FIT LET HIM WEAR IT.IF YOUR FATHER HAD A VISION TO PROPEL GHANA TO THE SKY AND NOT ONLY INTERESTED IN STEALINGGG AND MURDERING PEOPLE THEN WE WILL NOT BE HERE TODAY. FOR NINETEEN YEARS SHOW US WHAT YOUR FATHER ARCHIVED FOR THE MOTHERLAND? THOSE WHO DID SOMETHING FOR GHANA WHERE CUT DOWN IN COLD BLOOD BY YOUR FATHER AND SOME ARE CANVASSING FOR YOU AS PRESIDENT OF GHANA? NEVER,NEVER,IN THE LIFE SPAN OF THE MOTHERLAND. HOW HYPOCRITES YOU ARE, YOU ARE TRYING TO SCORE POLITICAL POINTS BY COMING TO CLAIM GHANA IS HARD.MY QUESTION IS ARE YOU EXPERIENCING THE SAME HARDSHIPS WE ARE EXPERIENCING.? YOUR DAYS ARE NUMBERED.ONLY TIME WILL TELL.
Leave this lady alone. At least, she is telling the truth, and disagrees with her parents. I have listened to her several times and she talks SENSE- not like many of you insulting her. She was a kid when her parents sent her out of the country to study. Should she have said no? Losers!
Where were you when Mahama was messing up the country? The hardship is a knock on effect of John Mahamaskk' incompetence.
YES INDEED. BEAUTY WITH BRAINS. INDEPENDENT THINKING. EZANATOR IS THE KIND OF CHILD WHO WOULD SAY TO MOM AND DAD, "THE EMPEROR HAS NO CLOTHES ON". INDEED, THE EMPEROR HIMSELF HAS DECLARED THIS TIME THAT, "I HAVE NO CLOTHES ON". BELIEVE THE SOCIO-ECONOMIC DIAGNOSIS OF THE MEDICAL DOCTOR TURNED POLITICIAN. SHE MAY BE RIGHT. NOW COMES THE MILLION DOLLAR QUESTION! WHAT SOCIAL MEDICINES WOULD CURE OR ALLEVIATE THE "HARDSHIP" THAT THE COUNTRY OF GHANA IS SUFFERING FROM NOW? TRY A 40-YEAR DEVELOPMENT PLAN.
Well, maybe ezenator should ask her parents where are the millions of dollars, gold bars and factory her mother sold and maybe the $5 million dollars bribe abacha paid her dad . The Rawlings are demon.they are the downfall of Ghana today. Your father was in power for 20 years and did nothing except killing innocent people who did not agree with him.
Inexperience in life, she will insult Ghanaians, why not? how does this girls become an MP of a constituency in the national capital? I would said more if I were her. That is why some of us think no country, south of Sahara, will achieve anything good for themselves. How does this lady become your leader, what do you want from her. only in tropical Africa. Hmmmmm