{"id":1183885,"date":"2022-08-19T10:46:28","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T10:46:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/19\/address-the-nation-on-current-challenges-prof-adei-tells-akufo-addo\/"},"modified":"2022-08-19T10:46:28","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T10:46:28","slug":"address-the-nation-on-current-challenges-prof-adei-tells-akufo-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/19\/address-the-nation-on-current-challenges-prof-adei-tells-akufo-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"Address the nation on current challenges &#8211; Prof Adei tells Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"Address the nation on current challenges - Prof Adei tells Akufo-Addo\" title=\"Address the nation on current challenges - Prof Adei tells Akufo-Addo\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>A former Board Chairman of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Prof Stephen Adei has charged President Akufo-Addo to address the nation on the challenges confronting the country.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the enormity of the current economic problems is similar to the Covid-19 situation.<\/p>\n<p>Thus, the President must once again hold periodic nation addresses to let the people know government\u2019s plan in resuscitating the economy.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1326985126&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Prof Adei was speaking on <strong>JoyNews\u2019 UpFront<\/strong> on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe just went through one crisis, Covid-19, the very week spoke to the nation. And every Sunday at 8 o\u2019clock there was a statement by the President.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo since things are still not good, please join us, support us,\u201d Prof Adei told the President.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s economic situation has not been the best in recent times.<\/p>\n<p>With the hike in fuel and transportation and the depreciation of the currency, many Ghanaians are complaining about their dire financial needs.<\/p>\n<p>Economists have also predicted doom for the economy should government fail to salvage things with urgency.<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Board Chairman of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA), Prof Stephen Adei has charged President Akufo-Addo to address the nation on the challenges confronting the country. According to him, the enormity of the current economic problems is similar to the Covid-19 situation. Thus, the President must once again hold periodic nation addresses to let [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1183887,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[2454,10640,648,1923,3431,5506,2280,700],"class_list":["post-1183885","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-address","tag-adei","tag-akufoaddo","tag-challenges","tag-current","tag-nation","tag-prof","tag-tells"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183885","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=1183885"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1183885\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1183885"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1183885"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1183885"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}