{"id":1070446,"date":"2022-04-29T03:52:07","date_gmt":"2022-04-29T03:52:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/29\/you-cant-compare-oranges-to-apples-former-dce-of-upper-denkyira-west-praises-mahama\/"},"modified":"2022-04-29T03:52:07","modified_gmt":"2022-04-29T03:52:07","slug":"you-cant-compare-oranges-to-apples-former-dce-of-upper-denkyira-west-praises-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/29\/you-cant-compare-oranges-to-apples-former-dce-of-upper-denkyira-west-praises-mahama\/","title":{"rendered":"You Can&#8217;t Compare Oranges To Apples &#8211; Former DCE of Upper Denkyira West Praises Mahama."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/04\/f6a908a98daa4770961187da01a07660\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In the face of the EIU report, John Mahama vindicating Bawumia, and the economic progress debate between the NPP and the NDC, here&#8217;s what the former DCE for Upper Denkyira West Mr. Ambrose Amoah-Ashyia on Ekosiisen has to say:<\/p>\n<p>In 2016 before we left power, our budget deficit was 6.1%. In 2020, the NPP\u2019s budget deficit was 6.5%, so how can you say a budget deficit of 6.5% is better than 6.1? We also left a GDP of 58%, the NPP has gone up to 83% under Bawumia and Nana Addo.<\/p>\n<p>If it is not hatred, how can you add Bawumia and Nana Akufo-Addo and say they have performed better than John Dramani Mahama? When you talk of Mahama, we make mention of infrastructure, good governance, and improvement.<\/p>\n<p>Taking the record of when Mahama was the head of the Economic Management Team to that of Bawumia, we\u2019ve had growth of 14% and single digits for inflation for three years; we have nothing as such for Bawumia.<\/p>\n<p>Talking about output, you can\u2019t compare oranges to apples. John Mahama is the real deal.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Jamal (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nBawumia<br \/>\nDCE<br \/>\nJohn Mahama<br \/>\nMahama<br \/>\nNana Akufo-Addo<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the face of the EIU report, John Mahama vindicating Bawumia, and the economic progress debate between the NPP and the NDC, here&#8217;s what the former DCE for Upper Denkyira West Mr. Ambrose Amoah-Ashyia on Ekosiisen has to say: In 2016 before we left power, our budget deficit was 6.1%. In 2020, the NPP\u2019s budget [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1070447,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[10767,10426,10768,7842,1125,10769,3896,3839,916],"class_list":["post-1070446","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-apples","tag-compare","tag-dce","tag-denkyira","tag-mahama","tag-oranges","tag-praises","tag-upper","tag-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070446","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1070446"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1070446\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1070446"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1070446"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1070446"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}