{"id":605116,"date":"2019-04-04T21:29:12","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T21:29:12","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Thursday,  4 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Starrfmonline.com <\/p>\n2019-04-04\n\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/03\/12"},"modified":"2019-04-04T21:29:12","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T21:29:12","slug":"bawumias-import-duties-cut-will-hang-npp-forever-adongo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/04\/bawumias-import-duties-cut-will-hang-npp-forever-adongo\/","title":{"rendered":"Bawumia\u2019s import duties cut will hang NPP forever \u2013 Adongo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Thursday,  4 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Starrfmonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2019-04-04<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/03\/12133226.295.jpg\" alt=\"Isaac Adongo Banking Sector 1\" title=\"Isaac Adongo Banking Sector 1\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Isaac Adongo, MP for Bolgatanga Central<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Isaac Adongo has said the decision by the Akufo-Addo government to slash the cost of import duties will be the undoing of the administration.<\/p>\n<p>He said the move, as announced by Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia at the government\u2019s Town Hall meeting Wednesday, is reminiscent of the first budget introduced by the NPP government when they won power after the 2016 polls.<\/p>\n<p>Delivering a counter speech in Accra Thursday, the Bolgatanga Central MP said he was surprised when the announcement of cuts in import duties was announced by the Vice President.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs I listened to the Vice President yesterday with the importers  jubilating after the announcement  just like the first budget that was brought to parliament when they won power, I said to myself this is the second deceit that a will hang the NPP forever,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking at the Town Hall meeting, Dr. Bawumia said available data shows that traffic at the Lome habour has increased by some 300% percent between 2013 and 2018 while Ghana saw just a little over 4% increment within the same period.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTo reduce the incidence of smuggling, the benchmark volume of imports will be reduced by 50%. However for vehicles the reduction will be 30%. This will be effective from tomorrow. We are doing this because we expect that we will see higher volumes coming into Ghana and the we get higher revenue,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Taken a swipe at the NDC, the Vice President argued the Cedi depreciation has been better managed by the New Patriotic Party than the National Democratic Congress.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur worst is better than your best and you say \u2018boot for boot\u2019? 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He said the move, as announced by Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia at the government\u2019s Town [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":603548,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-605116","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Bawumia\u2019s import duties cut will hang NPP forever \u2013 Adongo - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/04\/bawumias-import-duties-cut-will-hang-npp-forever-adongo\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Bawumia\u2019s import duties cut will hang NPP forever \u2013 Adongo - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"General News of Thursday, 4 April 2019 Source: Starrfmonline.com 2019-04-04 Isaac Adongo, MP for Bolgatanga Central Isaac Adongo has said the decision by the Akufo-Addo government to slash the cost of import duties will be the undoing of the administration. 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