{"id":256196,"date":"2009-02-20T08:22:57","date_gmt":"2009-02-20T08:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/xmlimport\/index.php\/2009\/02\/20\/bbcghana-president-to-cut-luxuries\/"},"modified":"2009-02-20T08:22:57","modified_gmt":"2009-02-20T08:22:57","slug":"bbcghana-president-to-cut-luxuries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2009\/02\/20\/bbcghana-president-to-cut-luxuries\/","title":{"rendered":"BBC:Ghana president &#8216;to cut luxuries&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"first\"><img class=\"caption\" http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/images\/stories\/attamills1.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"John Atta Mills says that Ghana is in need of \" title=\"John Atta Mills says that Ghana is in need of \" align=\"left\" \/>Ghana&#8217;s new President, John Atta Mills, has promised to cut wasteful government spending in his first State of the Nation speech. <\/p>\n<p>The government needs to make drastic cuts to get by after it discovered that spending before last year&#8217;s election had left the country &#8220;broke&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>President Atta Mills said he would cut back on the presidential jet, wages and civil service training seminars. <\/p>\n<p>But he did not mention a key election promise to reduce the price of fuel. <!-- E SF --><\/p>\n<p> \t  \t \t\t     \t\t\t    <!-- S IBOX --> \t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<table border=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" width=\"208\" align=\"right\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td width=\"5\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/newsimg.bbc.co.uk\/shared\/img\/o.gif\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" width=\"5\" height=\"1\" \/><\/td>\n<td class=\"sibtbg\"><\/p>\n<div class=\"miiib\"><!-- E ILIN --><\/div>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<p> \t\t\t\t \t\t\t    <!-- E IBOX --> \t\t\t \t     <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;What is called for is savings on our part to use those savings in the productive areas of the economy,&#8221; said President Atta Mills. <\/p>\n<p>He said Ghana was drastically in need of &#8220;austerity&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>Last month a member of the new president&#8217;s transitional team told reporters that Ghana was &#8220;broke&#8221;. <\/p>\n<p>The government of former President John Kufuor had exceeded its forecast budget deficit for 2008 by nearly seven times, Hanna Tetteh told Reuters news agency. <!-- E BO --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-256196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - 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