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The Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, has insisted that the Akufo-Addo-led government has delivered on its promises to the people of Ghana contrary to assertions by ex-President Mahama that he has not.<\/p>\n
Oppong Nkrumah said that the government achieved its promise of building a strong economy which was evident by the strong economic performance of the country prior to the COVID-19 pandemic, asaaseradio.com reports.<\/p>\n
He said that with the effects of the pandemic reducing, there is a strong indication that Ghana is going back to the strong economic performance it witnessed in the first three years of the\u00a0Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo\u00a0government.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe campaign was prosecuted on the promise of Free Senior high School, over one million beneficiaries out there, it is something that every Ghanaian who is being honest see clearly in the face, the campaign was prosecuted on the promise of bringing back economic growth.<\/p>\n
\u201cAverage growth in the first three years of the Akufo Addo administration is 7%, last year when we started recovering from COVID 5.4%, it is the COVID year that took us down. This year the forecast is quite clear that we are going to be doing lots of 5% and we will be going back to 7% shortly.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe campaign was prosecuted on the promise that we are going to get Ghana out of the IMF and onto self-sustainability and today the evidence is out there that we got Ghana out of the fund programme on the path of sustainability\u2026 the evidence is quite clear that a significant proportion of what was promised in the 2016 campaign has been achieved,\u201d the minister is quoted to have said on the Asaase Radio Breakfast show.<\/p>\n
This follows comments by former President,\u00a0John Dramani Mahama\u00a0at the\u00a0National Democratic Congress\u2019s \u2018Ghana at a Crossroads\u2019 event, that after the lofty promises it made Ghanaians, the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government has driven the country into a ditch.<\/p>\n
\u201c\u2026 Nana Akufo-Addo and the NPP pledged to transform Ghana within 18 months, grow our economy at double digits, reduce borrowing, ensure fiscal discipline, bring down the cost of living, lower taxes, and protect the public purse.<\/p>\n
\u201cThey promised also to live Ghana from taxation to production. In effect, none of these has been achieved. Instead, Ghanaians have been subjected to excruciating hardships and deprivation resulting directly from the mismanagement of the economy by a government that lacks the humility to accept responsibility and the capacity to appropriately diagnose the root causes of the challenges that have brought us here,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n
Mahama also said that the Akufo-Addo government failed to build on the strong foundation his government left it and it has squandered the vast amount of resource it had at its disposal.<\/p>\n
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