{"id":1140207,"date":"2022-07-02T16:38:09","date_gmt":"2022-07-02T16:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/02\/if-you-look-at-ghana-you-would-ask-yourself-why-are-we-even-going-to-the-imf\/"},"modified":"2022-07-02T16:38:09","modified_gmt":"2022-07-02T16:38:09","slug":"if-you-look-at-ghana-you-would-ask-yourself-why-are-we-even-going-to-the-imf","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/02\/if-you-look-at-ghana-you-would-ask-yourself-why-are-we-even-going-to-the-imf\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;If You Look At Ghana, You Would Ask Yourself Why Are We Even Going To The IMF?&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2 id=\"h-ghanaian-entertainment-critic-mr-logic-has-also-shared-his-thought- about-the-government-s-decision-to-seek-a-bailout-from-the-international-monetary-fund-imf\">Ghanaian entertainment critic, Mr. Logic has also shared his thought about the government\u2019s decision to seek a bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF).<\/h2>\n<p>He reacted to this latest development of the government seeking a bailout during his submission on Hitz FM\u2019s popular Saturday show, Matter Dey.<\/p>\n<h4>READ ALSO: \u2018Do Not Allow Ken Ofori Atta To Be Part Of The Team Of Negotiators To Meet IMF\u2019 \u2013 Mahama To Nana Addo<\/h4>\n<p>In his submission, he said;<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFor my research, Ghana has had a clean credit with the IMF. Therefore they were not expected to go back to the agency for money.<\/p>\n<h4>READ ALSO: Ghanaian Gospel Musician, Piesie Esther Recounts Moments She Had To Eat With No Fish<\/h4>\n<p>You can\u2019t say you won\u2019t pay the E-levy. The system is built in a way that you will pay. I am paying the E-levy painfully. I am waiting for the government to be held accountable for the PR they attached to the E-levy.<\/p>\n<p>We are all economists in our homes \u2013 how my children eat, what they eat, all of that. If you look at Ghana, you would ask yourself: why are we even going to the IMF? Where all the money dey pass?<\/p>\n<p>The government needs to cut down its expenditure.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><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=\"c3dda316595bcb491ca41675-text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaian entertainment critic, Mr. Logic has also shared his thought about the government\u2019s decision to seek a bailout from the International Monetary Fund (IMF). He reacted to this latest development of the government seeking a bailout during his submission on Hitz FM\u2019s popular Saturday show, Matter Dey. READ ALSO: \u2018Do Not Allow Ken Ofori Atta [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1111288,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[85,3074],"class_list":["post-1140207","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-ghana","tag-imf"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140207","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=1140207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1140207\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1140207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1140207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1140207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}