{"id":1226520,"date":"2022-10-17T11:27:58","date_gmt":"2022-10-17T11:27:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/17\/if-one-is-acting-in-truth-there-might-be-waves-against-him-ofori-atta-on-kwasi-kwarteng\/"},"modified":"2022-10-17T11:27:58","modified_gmt":"2022-10-17T11:27:58","slug":"if-one-is-acting-in-truth-there-might-be-waves-against-him-ofori-atta-on-kwasi-kwarteng","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/17\/if-one-is-acting-in-truth-there-might-be-waves-against-him-ofori-atta-on-kwasi-kwarteng\/","title":{"rendered":"If one is acting in truth, there might be waves against him &#8211; Ofori-Atta on Kwasi Kwarteng"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"419\"  alt=\"\" title=\"Kwarteng-1\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Kwarteng-1-696x419.webp\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"419\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/Kwarteng-1-696x419.webp\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Kwarteng-1\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>Ghana\u2019s Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta believes there was a heavy wave against the sacked UK Finance Minister Kwasi Kwarteng of a Ghanaian origin, because he was acting in truth.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Mr Ofori-Atta said he was pained by his dismissal.<\/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>Speaking in an interview with TV3\u2019s Paa Kwasi Asare in Washington DC, Mr Ofori-Atta said \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<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Laud Nartey|3news.com|Ghana<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta believes there was a heavy wave against the sacked UK Finance Minister Kwasi Kwarteng of a Ghanaian origin, because he was acting in truth. Mr Ofori-Atta said he was pained by his dismissal. Mr Kwarteng was sacked by the UK Prime Minister Mary Elizabeth Truss on Friday, October 14 amidst [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1226522,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[1229,24986,2516,2089,2256,16073],"class_list":["post-1226520","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-acting","tag-kwarteng","tag-kwasi","tag-oforiatta","tag-truth","tag-waves"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226520","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=1226520"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1226520\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1226520"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1226520"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1226520"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}