{"id":1073563,"date":"2022-05-02T10:38:00","date_gmt":"2022-05-02T10:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/02\/its-still-hard-to-believe-that-our-president-led-the-kume-preko-because-of-the-high-cost-of-living-then-hes-justifying-e-levy-at-a-time-when-people-are-barely-making-ends-meet\/"},"modified":"2022-05-02T10:38:00","modified_gmt":"2022-05-02T10:38:00","slug":"its-still-hard-to-believe-that-our-president-led-the-kume-preko-because-of-the-high-cost-of-living-then-hes-justifying-e-levy-at-a-time-when-people-are-barely-making-ends-meet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/02\/its-still-hard-to-believe-that-our-president-led-the-kume-preko-because-of-the-high-cost-of-living-then-hes-justifying-e-levy-at-a-time-when-people-are-barely-making-ends-meet\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It\u2019s Still Hard To Believe That Our President Led The Kume Preko Because Of The High Cost Of Living Then &#038; He\u2019s Justifying E-Levy At A Time When People Are Barely Making Ends Meet&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>It could be recalled that the controversial levy is now implented after several weeks of resistance and after it was implemented, many Ghanaians have reacted to it.<\/p>\n<p>In a recent post she made on her verified social media handle on the popular social media platform, Twitter, Lydia spoke about how the president led a demonstration about 25 years ago against high cost of living in Ghana and when he got the chance to be a president, he is implementing a levy at a time when people are barely making ends meet.<\/p>\n<p> that Lydia made reads;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s still hard to believe that our president led the Kume Preko against VAT( value added tax) because of the high cost of living then. Over 25 years later, he\u2019s justifying <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/elevy?src=hashtag_click\">#elevy<\/a> at a time when people are barely making ends meet. What changed? Power?\u201d<\/p>\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"aligncenter size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"770\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/Screenshot-2022-05-02-at-10.22.19-AM-1024x638.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-795302\"   data-recalc-dims=\"1\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Some reactions her post got are;<\/p>\n<p><strong>@vansly_1<\/strong> \u2013 Power corrupts. They start thinking right once they are away from it.<\/p>\n<p><strong>@VowsJoe<\/strong> \u2013 Politics di33 so naa oo. Dema tongue be sugar sccn<\/p>\n<p><strong>@GreyRCF<\/strong> \u2013 It\u2019s so funny that they oppose each other\u2019s ideas and then they end up doing what they opposed.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v13.0&#038;appId=1009694476028322&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\" type=\"c3a45455aca0d727eef6dca3-text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It could be recalled that the controversial levy is now implented after several weeks of resistance and after it was implemented, many Ghanaians have reacted to it. In a recent post she made on her verified social media handle on the popular social media platform, Twitter, Lydia spoke about how the president led a demonstration [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1073565,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1203,442,2099,2011,3203,3529,2158,11324,11325,9750,3346,5113,1156,345,11326,275,521],"class_list":["post-1073563","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-barely","tag-cost","tag-elevy","tag-ends","tag-hard","tag-hes","tag-high","tag-justifying","tag-kume","tag-led","tag-living","tag-making","tag-meet","tag-people","tag-preko","tag-president","tag-time"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073563","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=1073563"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1073563\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1073563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1073563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1073563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}