{"id":1244289,"date":"2022-11-05T02:59:05","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T02:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/05\/bitter-truth-has-the-president-failed-those-who-dearly-supports-him-with-this-sour-speech\/"},"modified":"2022-11-05T02:59:05","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T02:59:05","slug":"bitter-truth-has-the-president-failed-those-who-dearly-supports-him-with-this-sour-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/05\/bitter-truth-has-the-president-failed-those-who-dearly-supports-him-with-this-sour-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"[Bitter Truth] Has The President Failed Those Who Dearly Supports Him With This &#8216;Sour&#8217; Speech?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/292d908e91124802899c16d421baeadf\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(38, 38, 38);\">President Akufo-Addo tonight, Sunday, October 30, 2022, delivered a message to the country on the state of the economy. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(38, 38, 38);\">It can be recalled that several calls had been made by economists and political commentators on why Akufo-Addo had to address the nation. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(38, 38, 38);\">Many said an address will soothe Ghanaians and console them that at least the President cared about the economic situation of the country.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>This is what many expected the President to say in his address.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>1. That he is sorry for the pain and difficulties families and businesses are facing in the country.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>2. As part of efforts to restore confidence, he has accepted the resignation of the Minister for Finance.<\/p>\n<p>3. Name a replacement and encourage parliament to expedite action in passing the new minister\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>4. Announce a 50 percent cut in the salary of the President, Vice President, Ministers, and Chief Executive Officers.<\/p>\n<p>5. Reduce the size of the government by 40 percent.<\/p>\n<p>6. All non-essential public sector workers should work from home to ease the burden of the cost of commuting to work.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>7. Extension of the moratorium on all non-essential foreign travels by ministers, and government appointees.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>8. All Ministers, and appointees who have to travel out of the country should fly economy class\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>9. Announce a review of the SHS implementation to cover only wards from low-income families.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>10. Tax on sugar products, as well as imported rice and other consumer goods that are imported. This is to encourage the citizenry to patronize more locally-made food items.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>11. Offer incentives to businesses to stay afloat.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>12. Call a national dialogue\/summit on the economy to include Professionals and persons from different political persuasions among other solutions.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>These are practical solutions to a crisis. But alas, they won\u2019t listen to anyone but themselves.<\/p>\n<p>The question is, has the president failed those who was dearly in love with him with this speech? <\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/m.facebook.com\/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0fcHVUoEADZ73iibWJ554HEmz9P5LFzKxhRQm6MK2JuvcP8WcE2vZVYJwCDjkknA9l&#038;id=1430979436<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: BATACH (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 \/>\nGhanaians<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Akufo-Addo tonight, Sunday, October 30, 2022, delivered a message to the country on the state of the economy. It can be recalled that several calls had been made by economists and political commentators on why Akufo-Addo had to address the nation. Many said an address will soothe Ghanaians and console them that at least [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1244290,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[3181,13859,2130,275,17777,7239,3409,2256],"class_list":["post-1244289","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-bitter","tag-dearly","tag-failed","tag-president","tag-sour","tag-speech","tag-supports","tag-truth"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244289","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=1244289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}