{"id":1184150,"date":"2022-08-19T14:28:10","date_gmt":"2022-08-19T14:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/19\/hardship-is-not-the-doing-of-government-policy-tiah-abdul-kabiru-mahama\/"},"modified":"2022-08-19T14:28:10","modified_gmt":"2022-08-19T14:28:10","slug":"hardship-is-not-the-doing-of-government-policy-tiah-abdul-kabiru-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/19\/hardship-is-not-the-doing-of-government-policy-tiah-abdul-kabiru-mahama\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Hardship is not the doing of government policy&#8217; &#8211; Tiah Abdul-Kabiru Mahama"},"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=\"'Hardship is not the doing of government policy' - Tiah Abdul-Kabiru Mahama\" title=\"'Hardship is not the doing of government policy' - Tiah Abdul-Kabiru Mahama\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>The Technical Advisor to the Vice President, Dr. Tiah Abdul-Kabiru Mahama says the current economic hardship should not be placed at the doorstep of the government.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview on<strong> JoyNews\u2019 Top Story<\/strong> on Thursday, he said that the hardship currently faced by Ghanaians is not the doing of any government policy.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201cit is not a mistake committed by the President.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGhanaians are facing difficulty, the government has understood that times are very hard, the President has acknowledged that; the Vice President even acknowledges that times are hard and that Ghanaians just like other people across the world are experiencing the hardship of the times. <\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1326680287&#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\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have never experienced a situation of this caliber and we\u2019ve never experienced it in our modern history. People have to go through that particular hardship that is not the doing of any of government policy,\u201d he stressed.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the hardship is due to the fact that \u201cwe find ourselves at the wrong time of history. That point has to be made.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He noted that \u201cWhen you are having problems with your economy, every measure, every aspect has to be assembled in order to address that particular problem.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>His comment comes as a response to the pressure group, Arise Ghana\u2019s complaint of an increase in utility tariffs by the Public Utility and Regulation Commission.<\/p>\n<p>The group called for the tariff adjustment to be withdrawn.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr. Mahama, the same people who are today calling for the \u201celectricity and water prices to be reduced, condemned Electricity Company Limited when they were making losses when they are supposed to be making profits.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He added that \u201cthey came back to tell us that we can only be profitable if we make consumers pay realistic prices.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>When asked why they aren\u2019t fixing that issue since the President was put in office to do that, he the issues are being fixed. <\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Technical Advisor to the Vice President, Dr. Tiah Abdul-Kabiru Mahama says the current economic hardship should not be placed at the doorstep of the government. Speaking in an interview on JoyNews\u2019 Top Story on Thursday, he said that the hardship currently faced by Ghanaians is not the doing of any government policy. 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