{"id":462704,"date":"2018-02-08T15:47:15","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T15:47:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/08\/ofori-atta-is-a-national-asset-akufo-addo\/"},"modified":"2018-02-08T15:47:15","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T15:47:15","slug":"ofori-atta-is-a-national-asset-akufo-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/08\/ofori-atta-is-a-national-asset-akufo-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ofori Atta is a national asset \u2013 Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/Ken-ofori-atta-428x267.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"> <\/aside>\n<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has dismissed calls by the Minority in Parliament for the removal of the Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta, as he\u2019s touted how useful the latter has been to the country since he assumed office a year ago.<\/p>\n<p>The President addressing Parliament during the State of the Nation stated that the positive economic outlook in the past one year clearly shows Mr. Ofori Atta is gradually becoming a national asset.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cMr. Speaker, Ken Ofori-Atta, the Finance Minister, is proving to be a national asset,<\/em>\u201d Mr. Akufo-Addo said amid wild chants from the minority in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The President\u2019s compliments and repose of trust in the Minister follows calls from the NDC Minority that the Finance Minister should be sacked or resign for his role in the 2.5billion bond saga.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Akufo Addo in his speech said <em>\u201cFor the first time in a long while, our macroeconomic fundamentals are solid, and all the critical indices are pointing in the right direction\u2026as a result of appropriate policy, and the normalization of the power situation in the country, they have also engineered a spectacular revival of Ghanaian industry, from a growth rate of -0.5% in 2016 to 17.7% in 2017.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cThe annual average rate of debt accumulation which in recent years, has been as high as 36%, has declined to 13.6%, as at September 2017. As a result, the public debt stock as a ratio of GDP is 68.3%, against the annual target of 71% for 2017, and end 2016 actual figure of 73.1%.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cWe have, nevertheless, been able to meet my promise made last year to the House, and reduced the fiscal deficit from 9.3%, to an estimated 5.6% of GDP.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo further noted that the world is taking notice of Ghana\u2019s economic strides, adding that earlier, in January, the World Bank stated that Ghana\u2019s economy would probably grow by 8.3% this year, which would make it the fastest growing economy in the world.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if (d.getElementById(id)) return;js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=1136575713042949&version=v2.3\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><script>(function(d, s, id) {var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if (d.getElementById(id)) return;js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.6\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has dismissed calls by the Minority in Parliament for the removal of the Finance Minister Ken Ofori Atta, as he\u2019s touted how useful the latter has been to the country since he assumed office a year ago. The President addressing Parliament during the State of the Nation stated that the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":428595,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}