{"id":1230374,"date":"2022-10-21T07:04:38","date_gmt":"2022-10-21T07:04:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/21\/dont-believe-the-akufo-addo-bawumia-when-they-blame-russia-ukraine-war-and-covid-for-economic-mess\/"},"modified":"2022-10-21T07:04:38","modified_gmt":"2022-10-21T07:04:38","slug":"dont-believe-the-akufo-addo-bawumia-when-they-blame-russia-ukraine-war-and-covid-for-economic-mess","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/21\/dont-believe-the-akufo-addo-bawumia-when-they-blame-russia-ukraine-war-and-covid-for-economic-mess\/","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t believe the Akufo-Addo\/Bawumia When They Blame Russia-Ukraine War and Covid For Economic Mess"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Dr. Edward Omane Boamah, a former Minister of Communications for NDC has asked Ghanaians not to believe in Akufo-Addo\/Bawumia when they blame Ghana&#8217;s economic woes on Covid 19 or Russia &#8211; Ukraine war.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/69ba065b9e6f4fbca3b65b9178beadf5\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In a post shared on his official Facebook page on Friday 21st October 2022, he wrote;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Cry my beloved country! Fellow Ghanaians,<\/p>\n<p>Let me be clear! Don\u2019t believe the Akufo-Addo\/Bawumia government when they blame Russia-Ukraine war and COVID-19 for the economic mess and catastrophic financial meltdown Ghana is experiencing today.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>He added that Ghana is not the only country on the planet and in West Africa that has been affected by external factors. So why is Ghana failing so terribly?<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/d0ded7ca39eb4742819ed59842e3eaf8\"\/><\/p>\n<p>According to Dr Omane Boamah, he even pointed out to government in February 2020, before Covid-19 hit Ghana, that they were running an unsustainable debt plan; but were deliberately deploying and parroting voodooo calculations to deceive themselves and gaslight Ghanaians that all was well. Similarly, on the show I warned government about the cedi-dollar exchange rate parity.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Omane Boamah shared the video discussion. You may watch the video here.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It was a healthy Tv discussion with one of my successors, Minister Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, on Bernard Avle\u2019s Talkshow.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The truth is, because of the incompetence of the Akufo-Addo\/Bawumia government:<\/p>\n<p>Budgets of families and businesses have been disrupted;<\/p>\n<p>Exchange rate is over the roof;<\/p>\n<p>Ghana&#8217;s debt profile has become an international disgrace;<\/p>\n<p>Fuel prices have shot up significantly;<\/p>\n<p>Transportation fares have seen frequent increases;<\/p>\n<p>Electricity and water bills have skyrocketed;<\/p>\n<p>The retail aspect of the pharmaceutical industry value chain is collapsing; and\u00a0Ghanaians are suffering and facing excruciating hardships in several spheres of our national life. &#8221; He lamented <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/ba4ae1f7fb2a4e39b279bb71149da1ad\"\/><\/p>\n<p>He added that Diabetics, Hypertensives and others with chronic health conditions are really struggling to pay for routine drugs. Baby food is going beyond the financial reach of many homes&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Yet, the sad and worrying bit is, the NPP government has no strategy to get us out of this mess they have created.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Currentworldnews (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAkufo-Addo<br \/>\nBawumia<br \/>\nCommunications<br \/>\nEdward Omane Boamah<br \/>\nRussia-Ukraine<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dr. Edward Omane Boamah, a former Minister of Communications for NDC has asked Ghanaians not to believe in Akufo-Addo\/Bawumia when they blame Ghana&#8217;s economic woes on Covid 19 or Russia &#8211; Ukraine war. In a post shared on his official Facebook page on Friday 21st October 2022, he wrote; &#8220;Cry my beloved country! Fellow Ghanaians, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1230375,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4262,441,188,342,3010,3624,6478,4071],"class_list":["post-1230374","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-akufoaddobawumia","tag-blame","tag-covid","tag-dont","tag-economic","tag-mess","tag-russiaukraine","tag-war"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230374","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=1230374"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1230374\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1230374"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1230374"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1230374"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}