Accra, Dec. 14, GNA – President Nana Addo
Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said his government has achieved over 70 per cent of the
pledges it made to Ghanaians.
He said so far, the policies and programmes
being rolled out by Government was a clear manifestation that his
administration was resolved to put the country on the path of growth, progress
and development, which was the central theme of the promises that he made to
the Ghanaian people.
At an encounter with the media at the
Jubilee House in Accra, President Akufo-Addo said, his government was on course
to fulfil all the promises it made to the Ghanaian people before election 2020.
The President said the economic growth
figures being put out by his government were not mere statistics but a
reflection of the gains being made by his administration through prudent
economic management and viable programmes and policies, as espoused in the
manifesto that he campaigned on for political power.
He said though the country has not yet
reached the envisaged economic growth point, all the macroeconomic indicators
are pointing in the right direction, adding, “We need to make sure that we
hold the macro-economic fundamentals in good place if we want to sustain the
gains made.”
Answering a question posed by a journalist
on his government’s efforts to prosecute the many alleged corruption cases
leveled against some members of the previous administration, the President said
currently 25 former officials were on trials for a collective sum of over a
billion cedis.
He said though the trials were ongoing, it
was extremely important that those cases went through the due process to
ascertain the culpability or innocence of the affected individuals, adding that
government would not be stampeded by public opinion to derail the course of justice.
“The rule of law must come into play…for me,
that is a better way to deal with these matters.”
The President also touched on the recent
banking crisis, insisting that government had to intervene in the matter to
save the sector from collapse.
He said the intervention though harsh, was
necessary because his predecessors were negligent in exercising oversight
responsibilities in supervising a weak banking sector.
That intervention, if it was delayed, the
President noted, would have resulted in the loss of over 10,000 jobs and the
savings of over four million Ghanaians.
GNA
