{"id":1232077,"date":"2022-10-23T13:26:20","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T13:26:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/23\/ghana-must-work-again-samini-tells-akufo-addo\/"},"modified":"2022-10-23T13:26:20","modified_gmt":"2022-10-23T13:26:20","slug":"ghana-must-work-again-samini-tells-akufo-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/23\/ghana-must-work-again-samini-tells-akufo-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana must work again &#8211; Samini tells Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/10\/samini-akufo-addo-1024x687.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Musician Samini has bemoaned the country\u2019s dire economic situation, criticising President Akufo-Addo for the difficulties.<\/p>\n<p>Samini in a Facebook post said that because he believed in the President\u2019s message of change, he supported him to win power in the 2020 elections.<\/p>\n<p>Registering his disappointment with the turn of events, the \u2018My Own\u2019 hit maker stated that his soul bleeds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOur investments wash away daily as the dollar openly whips our cedi. We cannot pretend all is well. But if God has blessed Ghana with anything, it is our ability to stare difficulty right in the face and say, it will #bealright,\u201d Samini lamented.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGhana must work again! Where is the Nana Addo who begged us for the mandate,\u201d he added<\/p>\n<p>Samini\u2019s lamentations follow a sharp depreciation of the cedi in the past month with a dollar now selling for GH\u00a214.7.<\/p>\n<p>Inflation is in excess of 40% and fuel prices skyrocket with transport unions saying fares will go up from Monday, October 24, 2022.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-myjoyonline-com wp-block-embed-myjoyonline-com\"\/>\n<p>Government spokespersons insist external factors are responsible for the economic decline while sector experts including the World Bank and the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) blame poor economic decisions for the challenges.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Samini has urged Ghanaians to keep faith and pray for a better Ghana.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FSaminiOfficial%2Fposts%2Fpfbid0KsefPX6PRHq3dCPafT78qHwMMdkUHY2LvVCBFc4CnETfzCnahvvSJsaX9QrhiueZl&#038;show_text=true&#038;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"803\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe indiscipline in high and low places of government must be checked. We go keep hope alive and continue to soldier on. What\u2019s a man without hope? We can only continue to pray for a better tomorrow. To all my high graders out there, I say it again, we will #bealright!!!\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>DISCLAIMER: <\/strong>The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.myjoyonline.com\/ghana-must-work-again-samini-tells-akufo-addo\/\">Source<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Musician Samini has bemoaned the country\u2019s dire economic situation, criticising President Akufo-Addo for the difficulties. Samini in a Facebook post said that because he believed in the President\u2019s message of change, he supported him to win power in the 2020 elections. Registering his disappointment with the turn of events, the \u2018My Own\u2019 hit maker stated [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1232079,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[648,85,7652,700,2980],"class_list":["post-1232077","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-akufoaddo","tag-ghana","tag-samini","tag-tells","tag-work"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232077","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=1232077"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1232077\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1232077"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1232077"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1232077"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}