{"id":1155891,"date":"2022-07-22T11:12:27","date_gmt":"2022-07-22T11:12:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/22\/reduce-your-borrowing-its-not-an-achievement-dr-benjamin-otchere-ankrah-to-president-politics\/"},"modified":"2022-07-22T11:12:27","modified_gmt":"2022-07-22T11:12:27","slug":"reduce-your-borrowing-its-not-an-achievement-dr-benjamin-otchere-ankrah-to-president-politics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/22\/reduce-your-borrowing-its-not-an-achievement-dr-benjamin-otchere-ankrah-to-president-politics\/","title":{"rendered":"Reduce Your Borrowing; It&#8217;s Not An Achievement &#8211; Dr. Benjamin Otchere-Ankrah To President | Politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Governance Lecturer at the Central University, Dr. Benjamin Otchere-Ankrah, has made a solemn appeal to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to minimize his borrowing.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Otchere-Ankrah expressed concerns over the\u00a0culture of borrowing by the government stating how it burdens the nation, especially when the government isn&#8217;t able to pay back.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on\u00a0<strong>Peace FM&#8217;s<\/strong>\u00a0&#8220;Kokrokoo&#8221; programme, he cautioned the President saying, &#8220;<em>it&#8217;s not a good thing to hear. It is not a proud moment to say that you are a Ghanaian that when we are looking for people who borrow and don&#8217;t pay back, Ghana is second on the list. Is this an achievement? It&#8217;s so sad&#8221;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>Listen to his full submissions below:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"7BXqFqhyrXo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Is This An Achievement??? Dr Otchere-Ankrah Lashes Govt Over Level Of Borrowing\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7BXqFqhyrXo?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<h3><strong\/><\/h3>\n<p><span class=\"peace_black_text_4\">Source: Ameyaw Adu Gyamfi\/Peacefmonline.com\/Ghana<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<table width=\"100%\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" cellspacing=\"0\" style=\"clear:both\">\n<tr>\n<td><span class=\"peace_red_text_1\">Disclaimer<\/span>: <span class=\"peace_ash_text_1\">Opinions expressed here are those of the writers and do not reflect those of Peacefmonline.com. Peacefmonline.com accepts no responsibility legal or otherwise for their accuracy of . Please report any inappropriate  to us, and we will evaluate it as a matter of priority.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n<p>Featured Video\n<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"wB2-NHndouE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Our Fight Against Sim Card Registration Is Unending- Hon. Ras Mubarak Cautions Gov&#039;t\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wB2-NHndouE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Governance Lecturer at the Central University, Dr. Benjamin Otchere-Ankrah, has made a solemn appeal to President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to minimize his borrowing. Dr. Otchere-Ankrah expressed concerns over the\u00a0culture of borrowing by the government stating how it burdens the nation, especially when the government isn&#8217;t able to pay back. Speaking on\u00a0Peace FM&#8217;s\u00a0&#8220;Kokrokoo&#8221; programme, he [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1155894,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[2078,1832,3542,13304,1753,275,1312],"class_list":["post-1155891","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-achievement","tag-borrowing","tag-otchereankrah","tag-politics","tag-president","tag-reduce"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155891","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=1155891"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1155891\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1155891"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1155891"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1155891"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}