{"id":1226321,"date":"2022-10-17T08:51:59","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T08:51:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/17\/the-lord-knows-best-ofori-atta-writes-to-sacked-uk-finance-minister-kwasi-kwarteng\/"},"modified":"2022-10-17T08:51:59","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T08:51:59","slug":"the-lord-knows-best-ofori-atta-writes-to-sacked-uk-finance-minister-kwasi-kwarteng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/17\/the-lord-knows-best-ofori-atta-writes-to-sacked-uk-finance-minister-kwasi-kwarteng\/","title":{"rendered":"The Lord knows best &#8211; Ofori-Atta writes to sacked UK Finance Minister Kwasi Kwarteng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"609\" height=\"299\"  alt=\"\" title=\"Ofori-Atta and kwarteng\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Ofori-Atta-and-kwarteng.png\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"609\" height=\"299\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Ofori-Atta-and-kwarteng.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Ofori-Atta and kwarteng\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Ofori-Atta (Left) and Kwasi Kwarteng,<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has revealed that he sent an email to Kwesi Kwarteng after his dismissal as Britain\u2019s Finance Minister.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr Ofori-Addo said his pain was that a Ghanaian who reached the highest level had to suffer in this manner.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe pain or sadness is that he is a Ghanaian\u00a0 reaching almost the highest level , Chancellor of the Exchequer. Yes, we sat together three days ago.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am always very optimistic, if one is really doing things in truth\u00a0 there might be some waves\u00a0 but the Lord will see him through. I was surprised at what happened. I have sent an email to him, I told him the Lord knows best,\u201d Mr Ofori-Atta told TV3\u2019s Paa Kwesi Asare in Washington DC.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kwarteng was sacked by the UK Prime Minister Mary Elizabeth Truss on Friday, October 14 amidst the government\u2019s tax cuts believed to have sparked financial market turmoil.<\/p>\n<p>In a letter reacting to his dismissal, he said \u201cYou have asked me to step aside as your Chancellor, I have accepted.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you asked me to serve as your Chancellor,\u00a0 I did so in full knowledge that the situation we faced was incredibly difficult, with rising global interest rates and energy prices. However, your vision of optimism, growth and change was right.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have been colleagues and friends for many years. In that time I have seen your dedication and determination. I believe your vision is the right one. It has been an honour to serve as your first Chancellor.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Laud Nartey|3news.com|Ghana<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ken Ofori-Atta (Left) and Kwasi Kwarteng, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has revealed that he sent an email to Kwesi Kwarteng after his dismissal as Britain\u2019s Finance Minister. Mr Ofori-Addo said his pain was that a Ghanaian who reached the highest level had to suffer in this manner. \u201cThe pain or sadness is that he is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1226323,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[457,24986,2516,3750,1223,2089,1937,4955],"class_list":["post-1226321","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-finance","tag-kwarteng","tag-kwasi","tag-lord","tag-minister","tag-oforiatta","tag-sacked","tag-writes"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226321","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=1226321"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226321\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226321"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226321"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226321"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}