{"id":1149955,"date":"2022-07-15T14:31:28","date_gmt":"2022-07-15T14:31:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/15\/dr-bawumia-blames-mahamas-govt-for-economic-woes\/"},"modified":"2022-07-15T14:31:28","modified_gmt":"2022-07-15T14:31:28","slug":"dr-bawumia-blames-mahamas-govt-for-economic-woes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/15\/dr-bawumia-blames-mahamas-govt-for-economic-woes\/","title":{"rendered":"Dr Bawumia blames Mahama&#8217;s govt for economic woes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"434\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/download-Copy-4-696x434.jpg\"   alt=\"Mahama and Bawumia\" title=\"Mahama and Bawumia\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former President John Mahama (R) and Dr Mahamudu  Bawumia (L)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia says part of Ghana\u2019s current economic challenges can be blamed on \u201cthe previous government.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In a speech at the Accra Business School, the Vice President listed what he described as the \u201cquadruple challenges\u201d the current government faces \u2013 excess capacity payments, banking sector crisis, Covid-19 and the Russia-Ukraine war.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But Dr Bawumia says the excess capacity payments and the banking sector crisis were inherited from the previous administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cCovid-19 expenditures alone were not reason for the large increase in Ghana\u2019s debt stock by the end of 2021,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"hmQvaLAtMNI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam Sports News on Adom TV (15-7-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hmQvaLAtMNI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President John Mahama (R) and Dr Mahamudu Bawumia (L) Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia says part of Ghana\u2019s current economic challenges can be blamed on \u201cthe previous government.\u201d In a speech at the Accra Business School, the Vice President listed what he described as the \u201cquadruple challenges\u201d the current government faces \u2013 excess capacity [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1149957,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[2032,2097,3010,225,6254,1755],"class_list":["post-1149955","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-bawumia","tag-blames","tag-economic","tag-govt","tag-mahamas","tag-woes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149955","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=1149955"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1149955\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1149955"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1149955"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1149955"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}