{"id":1204578,"date":"2022-09-14T21:01:07","date_gmt":"2022-09-14T21:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/14\/ghana-is-now-very-expensive-king-promise-bemoans\/"},"modified":"2022-09-14T21:01:07","modified_gmt":"2022-09-14T21:01:07","slug":"ghana-is-now-very-expensive-king-promise-bemoans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/14\/ghana-is-now-very-expensive-king-promise-bemoans\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Is Now Very Expensive &#8211; King Promise bemoans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"1044\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/FB_IMG_1663188728742.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"FB_IMG_1663188728742\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">King Promise<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Mellifluous Ghanaian singer and songwriter King Promise has joined the tall list of celebrities who have bemoaned the hardship imposed on Ghanaians by the Akufo-Addo\u2019s Government.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speaking in a conversation with prolific media personality Abeiku Santana on Okay Fm, the singer noted that living in the country is now very expensive and there is no way someone can say the contrary.<\/p>\n<p>He added that the prices of goods among others have skyrocketed unreasonably. Things he used to buy at less expensive prices have exorbitantly increased a few months down the line.<\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cGhana is expensive, no one can lie,\u201d<\/em> he said. Adding his experience, the \u2018Ginger\u2019 singer said <em>\u201clike things I use to pay for like maybe 12, 000, 13, 000 and 14,000 now is like 24,000. It doesn\u2019t make any sense in less than six months\u201d.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Below are other celebrities who have shared their experience on the current state of the country\u2019s economy ;<\/p>\n<div class=\"ringAmpDetail ringBlockType-paragraph \">\n<p class=\"hyphenate\">A friend of mine came to Ghana \ud83c\uddec\ud83c\udded for a few weeks and later called me saying\u2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ringAmpDetail ringBlockType-paragraph \">\n<p class=\"hyphenate\">Joo why is the living here so expensive, for a developing country? Wow. How can local businesses thrive? And how can foreign businesses come in and operate successfully?<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ringAmpDetail ringBlockType-paragraph \">\n<p class=\"hyphenate\">I was just quiet\u2026\ud83e\udd74\ud83d\udc94\ud83d\udcf1<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content\" src=\"https:\/\/htmlbox.pulsembed.eu\/embed\/HhgGwVwb7#amp=1\" name=\"amp_iframe0\" frameborder=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-presentation\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"ringAmpDetail ringBlockType-paragraph \">\n<p class=\"hyphenate\">Town make hard ooo . Naaaa. Government ain\u2019t helping the people like promised. There are no jobs , there are no incentives for the lower class , the economy isn\u2019t doing well on numerous fronts , the cedi is depreciating soo fast, the people are going through it.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content\" src=\"https:\/\/htmlbox.pulsembed.eu\/embed\/wGM6Ph9fj#amp=1\" name=\"amp_iframe1\" frameborder=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-presentation\" data-mce-fragment=\"1\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"ringAmpDetail ringBlockType-paragraph \">\n<p class=\"hyphenate\">Staying indoor when I touch down GH \u2026 Zoom calls only \u2026 #FuelPrices<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\">\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Staying indoor when I touch down GH \u2026 Zoom calls only \u2026 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/FuelPrices?src=hash&amp;ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">#FuelPrices<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&mdash; Sarkodie (@sarkodie) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/sarkodie\/status\/1503662388666679297?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">March 15, 2022<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"ringAmpDetail ringBlockType-paragraph \">\n<p class=\"hyphenate\">The economy Dey turn boys to old men by force \ud83d\ude02\ud83e\udd23<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"ringAmpDetail ringBlockType-paragraph \">\n<p class=\"hyphenate\">Moro fuel \u26fd\ufe0f prices go escalate<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content\" src=\"https:\/\/htmlbox.pulsembed.eu\/embed\/ei1TzyzS-#amp=1\" name=\"amp_iframe3\" frameborder=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<div class=\"ringAmpDetail ringBlockType-paragraph \">\n<p class=\"hyphenate\">What a time! I still remember when the dollar was heading to almost GH4 under the previous government. The way we bore! Now a dollar is almost GH 8 and our economic gurus who held conferences with PowerPoints haven\u2019t been able to do much but still speak bl3<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content\" src=\"https:\/\/htmlbox.pulsembed.eu\/embed\/DI7Z8H-xB#amp=1\" name=\"amp_iframe4\" frameborder=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe class=\"i-amphtml-fill-content\" src=\"https:\/\/htmlbox.pulsembed.eu\/embed\/Br2ZrEodi#amp=1\" name=\"amp_iframe5\" frameborder=\"0\" sandbox=\"allow-forms allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-top-navigation-by-user-activation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox allow-presentation\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>King Promise Mellifluous Ghanaian singer and songwriter King Promise has joined the tall list of celebrities who have bemoaned the hardship imposed on Ghanaians by the Akufo-Addo\u2019s Government. Speaking in a conversation with prolific media personality Abeiku Santana on Okay Fm, the singer noted that living in the country is now very expensive and there [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1204579,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[10836,1855,85,126,1022],"class_list":{"0":"post-1204578","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entertainment","8":"tag-bemoans","9":"tag-expensive","10":"tag-ghana","11":"tag-king","12":"tag-promise"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204578","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=1204578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1204578\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1204578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1204578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1204578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}