{"id":1240258,"date":"2022-11-01T06:55:46","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T06:55:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/01\/youre-a-greedy-bofrot-president-efia-odo-to-akufo-addo\/"},"modified":"2022-11-01T06:55:46","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T06:55:46","slug":"youre-a-greedy-bofrot-president-efia-odo-to-akufo-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/01\/youre-a-greedy-bofrot-president-efia-odo-to-akufo-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019re a greedy bofrot president \u2013 Efia Odo to Akufo Addo \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h2><strong>Efia Odo, a socialite in Ghana, has publicly placed the responsibility for the country\u2019s current economic problems on Akufo Addo calling him a bofrot president for obvious reasons.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>She blames the President for the current state of economic \u201cchaos.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYou caused this chaos\u2026\u201d she tweeted in reaction to the President\u2019s address on the state of Ghana\u2019s economy on Sunday and proceeded to call the President names.<\/p>\n<p>The actress\u2019s criticism is only the latest in a slew of negative responses to the president\u2019s speech on Sunday night in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo announced his administration\u2019s plans to fix the economy in a nationally broadcast address.<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO:\u00a0Angry Efia Odo invokes God\u2019s wrath on Nana Akufo Addo<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>Many Ghanaians are suffering the effects of the current economic crisis in the country.<\/p>\n<p>The persistent devaluation of the local currency, together with growing inflation and a drop in other macroeconomic metrics, is indicative of the difficulty.<\/p>\n<p>Nonetheless, in his address to the country last night, the President reaffirmed his confidence that the conclusion of the government\u2019s current discussions with the IMF would help restore the economy.<\/p>\n<p>He also suggested cutting imports and keeping the 30% pay cut for all government officials in place as ways to kickstart the economy.<\/p>\n<p>Efia Odo is just one of many Ghanaians who have resorted to social media to criticize the President\u2019s message, calling it \u201chollow.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; Efia Odo, a socialite in Ghana, has publicly placed the responsibility for the country\u2019s current economic problems on Akufo Addo calling him a bofrot president for obvious reasons. She blames the President for the current state of economic \u201cchaos.\u201d \u201cYou caused this chaos\u2026\u201d she tweeted in reaction to the President\u2019s address on the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1240260,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[543,544,27652,9018,16280,9019,275,2793],"class_list":["post-1240258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-addo","tag-akufo","tag-bofrot","tag-efia","tag-greedy","tag-odo","tag-president","tag-youre"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240258","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=1240258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}