{"id":1174187,"date":"2022-08-11T12:10:17","date_gmt":"2022-08-11T12:10:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/11\/akuffo-addos-faith-in-his-appointees-appalling-amidst-ghanas-economic-crisis-mahamas-aide\/"},"modified":"2022-08-11T12:10:17","modified_gmt":"2022-08-11T12:10:17","slug":"akuffo-addos-faith-in-his-appointees-appalling-amidst-ghanas-economic-crisis-mahamas-aide","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/11\/akuffo-addos-faith-in-his-appointees-appalling-amidst-ghanas-economic-crisis-mahamas-aide\/","title":{"rendered":"Akuffo-Addo\u2019s Faith In His Appointees Appalling Amidst Ghana\u2019s Economic Crisis &#8211; Mahama\u2019s Aide"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/055e285ba2234583baae046baa13e01c\" height=\"210\" width=\"311\"\/><\/span><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Special Assistant to former President John Dramani Mahama, Joyce Bawa Mogtari has expressed worry over President Akuffo-Addo\u2019s insistence on keeping his appointees, who many believe have underperformed, at post.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Ms Joyce says she is struggling to comprehend the president\u2019s faith in his ministers especially when evidence abound that they have performed poorly.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Owing to the current challenges in the economy, several calls have been made to President Akuffo-Addo to reshuffle his appointees and bring on-board fresh brains to help address the difficulties.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">But the president has rejected those calls, saying he is satisfied with the performance of his ministers.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Ms Joyce, in a tweet, wrote \u201ctwo mornings later, I am still shaking my head and trying to distill the phrase \u2018outstanding performance of my ministers\u2019 @NAkufoAddo when inflation is at its highest @31.7% hardship and unemployment now a security threat, lest we forget, the treble C downgrade, points to failure!\u201d.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">The Special Assistant to the former President tweeted this in reaction to the recent downgrade of Ghana\u2019s economy to \u2018CCC\u2019 by Fitch as well as the rising levels of inflation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">International credit rating agency Fitch has downgraded Ghana\u2019s Long-Term Foreign-Currency (LTFC) Issuer Default ratings to \u2018CCC\u2019 from \u2018B\u2019 in its latest report.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Before Fitch, Standard and Poor, another credit rating firm, had already downgraded Ghana\u2019s debt further into speculative territory, lowering its foreign and local currency sovereign ratings to CCC+\/C from B-\/B.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Latest figures also pegs inflation at 31.7 per cent<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: OPolitics (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAkuffo-Addo<br \/>\nJohn Dramani Mahama<br \/>\nJoyce<br \/>\nJoyce Bawa Mogtari<br \/>\nNAkufoAddo<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Special Assistant to former President John Dramani Mahama, Joyce Bawa Mogtari has expressed worry over President Akuffo-Addo\u2019s insistence on keeping his appointees, who many believe have underperformed, at post. Ms Joyce says she is struggling to comprehend the president\u2019s faith in his ministers especially when evidence abound that they have performed poorly. 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