Former Acting General Secretary of the Convention People's Party (CPP), James Kwabena Bomfeh says Ghanaians should cut President Nana Akufo-Addo some slack.
The President has come under a barrage of criticisms even after he addressed Ghanaians on the economy and things his government is doing to restore the country.
The President touched on various sectors of the economy and proffered his solutions.
Highlighting some measures the government is undertaking to address the plight of the populace, the President said; "We are in a crisis, I do not exaggerate when I say so. I cannot find an example in history when so many malevolent forces have come together at the same time. But, as we have shown in other circumstances, we shall turn this crisis into an opportunity to resolve not just the short-term, urgent problems, but the long-term structural problems that have bedeviled our economy.
"I urge us all to see the decision to go to the International Monetary Fund in this light. We have gone to the Fund to repair, in the short term, our public finances, and restore our balance of payments, whilst we continue to work on the medium to long-term structural changes that are at the heart of our goal of constructing a resilient, robust Ghanaian economy, and building a Ghana Beyond Aid.
"I am able to report to you, my fellow Ghanaians, that the negotiations to secure a strong IMF Programme, which will support the implementation of our Post COVID-19 Programme for Economic Growth and additional funding to support the 2023 Budget and development programme, are at advanced stages, and are going well."
But some critics say the President's speech was inadequate because he only gave peripheral details on how he is going to rescue the economy from its ruins.
Responding to the critics, James Kwabena Bomfeh read out paragraph 24 of the President's speech stressing President Nana Akufo-Addo provided the basis for not getting into specifics of his plans to revive the economy.
" . . Let me try and give you an outline of the main decisions without getting into the technical
language that baffles many of us," he quoted from the President's address.
To James Kwabena Bomfeh, a.k.a Kabila, this line should be enough to satisfy the critics' curiosity to knowing more about how the President intends to fix the economy.
"If the person said I am giving an outline and the details will come later and you say he didn't give details, I'm wondering if you listened to him . . . He set out that he wasn't coming to do a thorough detailed presentation and I feel we owe him that," he said on Peace FM's "Kokrokoo" show.
Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi/Peacefmonline.com/Ghana
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I solemnly entreat you with sincerity to read carefully what Ohemaa-Ba has written, and I believe that with a sane mind, if you have any, you can make sense of it all. The insult will not help you or Ghana at large. Let us give the insult to the NDC, for it cannot do without it because it has sadly become its trademark. Mark it on the wall that the 2024 elections are going to set the precedent that if the NDC does not change the culture of the militant "bugabuga," and the vile politics of defamation, it is not going to win any elections in Ghana any time soon.
Kindly forgive Kabila, na 3kom 3y3ya
we still have empty headed imbeciles like kabila and ohemaa defending this ***barred word*** and incompetent robbers how do you expect the nation to recover from the coma we are in? they still blame russia, ukraine and covid? we are suffring becos bunch of failures are managing the economy and blaming dogs and vultures for their woes...THIS IS THE MOST ***barred word*** GOVERNMENT ON THE PLANET even a makola market woman can manage the economy better than this ***barred word*** who parade themselves as intellectuals....GOD SAVE GHANA
Let us all, as patriotic Ghanaians, come out strongly to support our president so that we can all successfully overcome the challenges posed by COVID and the Ukraine war. I know a lot of Ghanaians, and some biased politicians and dishonest intellectuals deliberately chose to underrate the aggravations to the economy caused by the impact of the pandemic and the Ukraine war. Then, given the unbearable structural weakness of the economy, there is no way the Ghanaian economy can withstand the challenges. Therefore, we have to be candid and attribute the present hardship mainly to COVID and the Ukraine war as the last forces that broke the camel's neck. Even the advanced economies have their problems, which take diverse forms depending on the structures underlying their economies. Indeed, most of the governments of the Fourth Republic, especially those of the NDC, have failed awfully to do the least to transform the Guggisburg colonial raw material-based economic structures. It is instructive to realize that the present NPP government has policies that target to reform the structures of the economy, namely, one district, one factory, railway infrastructure, FHS, and Ghana beyond the aid agenda, to name a few. Though President Kuffuor also did marvelous. It is equally instructive to note that the same cannot be said of any NDC administration. Hence, I agree with Kabila when he says we should cut the president some slack.
GBEHA you are too small to defend this ***barred word***. ***barred word*** Kabila. your submissions lately are stomach direction. noko fiooooo so you are spewing garbage.