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Kojo Oppong Nkrumah<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n THE BANK of Ghana (BoG) has announced will meet Managing Directors of some banks and heads of forex bureaux associations for discussions aimed at stabilising the local currency and accessing forex among others today.<\/p>\n Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, who disclosed this at a media engagement in Accra yesterday, said the meeting will among other things, discuss measures aimed at helping to halt the overpricing and how people could get access to forex for legitimate transactions without hindrance at the banking halls.<\/p>\n \u201cMay I say that tomorrow morning, the Bank of Ghana will be meeting some of the Managing Directors\u00a0 of some of the banks and heads of forex bureaux associations for a series of discussions aimed at ensuring that\u00a0 the supply of forex to the\u00a0 forex\u00a0 market is stabilised and the over pricing is\u00a0 also halted and that people\u00a0 who will need access\u00a0 to forex\u00a0\u00a0 for legitimate transactions can get same\u00a0 without hindrance at the banking halls, and at the forex bureaux, as against \u00a0the black market\u00a0 or using some rate\u00a0 coming from some other quarters,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n He also hinted\u00a0 that\u00a0 the\u00a0 meeting will also discuss some\u00a0 longer lasting measures \u00a0to ensure the stabilisation\u00a0 of forex trade\u00a0 even as the country\u00a0 expected a lot more inflow\u00a0 of forex following the completion\u00a0 of the syndication of the cocoa board transaction.<\/p>\n The minister mentioned that due to the economic challenges facing countries globally, the government, in anticipation of the difficulties Ghana was likely to face, put in place measures to contain the challenges including a budget cut.<\/p>\n He said the engagement with the IMF team by the Economic Management Team (EMT) is yielding positive results and would discuss some outcomes of the meeting at a Cabinet meeting with the President this week.<\/p>\n \u201cMy understanding is that today, the economic management team will apprise itself of the latest numbers as have been put together and some of the recommendations as we get into the final part of the year and then from Thursday, Cabinet itself will be meeting on Thursday, Friday and Saturday. The President will chair to receive what has gone through the EMT, to receive an update on the negotiations so that decisions can be made and subsequently, he can update the nation on the next step forward,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n By Ebenezer K. Amponsah<\/strong><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n \n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Kojo Oppong Nkrumah \u00a0 THE BANK of Ghana (BoG) has announced will meet Managing Directors of some banks and heads of forex bureaux associations for discussions aimed at stabilising the local currency and accessing forex among others today. Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, who disclosed this at a media engagement in Accra yesterday, said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1076883,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[1274,1084,672,547,285],"class_list":["post-1233966","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-banks","tag-bog","tag-cedi","tag-meets","tag-today"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233966","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=1233966"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233966\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233966"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233966"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233966"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}