{"id":1182735,"date":"2022-08-18T13:19:51","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T13:19:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/18\/vice-president-bawumia-frees-john-mahama-and-makes-a-great-u-turn\/"},"modified":"2022-08-18T13:19:51","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T13:19:51","slug":"vice-president-bawumia-frees-john-mahama-and-makes-a-great-u-turn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/18\/vice-president-bawumia-frees-john-mahama-and-makes-a-great-u-turn\/","title":{"rendered":"Vice President Bawumia Frees John Mahama And Makes A Great U-Turn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>The Vice President of Ghana, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia; also known as the &#8216;Sounding Brass&#8217;, has finally freed former President John Mahama, as he make a big U-turn on the current causes of the Ghanaian economic woes.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/f9f06e307eca4a2f9df621f900d708a1\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The Republic of Ghana, under the current New Patriotic Party (NPP) government, has ran into many problems  breaks in the economy; leading to high cost of petroleum prices, high cost of goods and services, high cost of living, and many more.<\/p>\n<p>Vice President Dr. Bawumia had earlier blamed all these current economic challenges on \u201cthe previous National Democratic Congress (NDC) government, led by Former President John Dramani Mahama.<\/p>\n<p>He said other factors like, the excess capacity payments and the banking sector crisis, were inherited from the previous administration.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, &#8220;If you ask a carpenter to roof your house, and suddenly the roof collapses without any wind or rainfall, will you not blame the carpenter who did the roofing? But if a carpenter roofs your house and the roof collapses because of a tornado, and a storm which has also blown away the roofs, windows and walls of many houses, will you blame the carpenter&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>In his current claim, Vice President Bawumia has shifted the blame from the former president to Covid-19 pandemic and the ongoing Ukraine-Russia war.<\/p>\n<p>speaking on Wednesday explained, Dr. Bawumia said, &#8220;during those deadly times (of the covid pandemic), government was more focused on saving lives than the country\u2019s fiscal discipline. This came at a very expensive cost to the nation&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe had the worst economic depression since the 1930s, in the global economy. Of course from the President\u2019s point of view at the time of Covid-19, the emphasis was on saving lives and not on fiscal discipline&#8221;, he added.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Bawumia stressed that, \u201cSo yes, we focused on saving lives at great fiscal cost\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: CornerNewsUpdate (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\">\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Vice President of Ghana, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia; also known as the &#8216;Sounding Brass&#8217;, has finally freed former President John Mahama, as he make a big U-turn on the current causes of the Ghanaian economic woes. 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