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– –<\/span> A member of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) Ernest Owusu Bempah, – –<\/span> – – A member of the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) Ernest Owusu Bempah,has disclosed that the government cannot be blamed for the current economic hardships.\u2060\u2060He said the situation is completely out of the hands of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his government. Owusu Bempah, who is also a convener of \u2018Fixing the Country\u2019 […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1120411,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[543,11278,442,1333,2158,13184,274,3684,5440,4071],"class_list":["post-1120409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-addo","tag-blamed","tag-cost","tag-fish","tag-high","tag-kenkey","tag-nana","tag-shouldnt","tag-ukraine","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120409","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=1120409"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1120409\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1120409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1120409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1120409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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has disclosed that the government cannot be blamed for the current economic hardships.\u2060
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He said the situation is completely out of the hands of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo and his government. Owusu Bempah, who is also a convener of \u2018Fixing the Country\u2019 said the increased prices of food is due to the current war between Russia and Ukraine.\u2060
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According to him, the war has led to a shortage in the supply of fertilizer for the planting of maize in Ghana causing a rise in the cost of maize. This, he argued, has consequently affected the price of kenkey.\u2060
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\u201cYou are a journalist and so if you ask those questions, you have to ask the circumstances within which the world is situated\u2026 We need fertilizer to grow corn and we don\u2019t manufacture the fertilizer in Ghana, we import it. So if you wake up one day and everything has come to a halt with borders closed, the first cardinal principle to know is that global circumstances have changed.\u201d\u2060
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\u201cMajority of our economy relies on the importation of goods and services, right or wrong? Therefore, you have to know that things will change. Secondly, we know that globally crude oil which we import is from Russia and Ukraine. Because of the war going on in Ukraine, if anyone says we can\u2019t argue that the break-in supply and the resulting increase in oil prices has no effect, I don\u2019t agree,\u201d he argued.\u2060
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\u201cWe import about 60% of our crude oil from Ukraine and Russia so if the prices have increased, obviously, that should tell you something. How much oil do we produce in Ghana? We have to import, and when we do that, there are heavy taxes imposed on it which will go on to affect everything. So if kenkey used to be GHC1 and it is now GHC5, why should you be worried?\u201d he questioned.\u2060<\/p>\n
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