{"id":1244645,"date":"2022-11-05T14:12:28","date_gmt":"2022-11-05T14:12:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/05\/no-basis-for-ku-me-preko-demonstration-hardship-purely-incidental-richard-ahiagbah-to-protestors\/"},"modified":"2022-11-05T14:12:28","modified_gmt":"2022-11-05T14:12:28","slug":"no-basis-for-ku-me-preko-demonstration-hardship-purely-incidental-richard-ahiagbah-to-protestors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/05\/no-basis-for-ku-me-preko-demonstration-hardship-purely-incidental-richard-ahiagbah-to-protestors\/","title":{"rendered":"No basis for &#8216;Ku Me Preko&#8217; demonstration, hardship purely incidental &#8211; Richard Ahiagbah to protestors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Director of Communications for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Richard Ahiagbah has downplayed the rationale behind the \u2018Ku Me Preko\u2019 demonstration.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the action which saw Ghanaians lament that government has not done enough to alleviate the plight of citizens in the struggling economy is baseless.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Ku-Me-Preko-Reloaded-demo-3-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"No basis for 'Ku Me Preko' demonstration, hardship purely incidental - Richard Ahiagbah to protestors\" class=\"wp-image-10032203481 lazy\"  data- title=\"No basis for 'Ku Me Preko' demonstration, hardship purely incidental - Richard Ahiagbah to protestors\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Today\u2019s protest saw a section of Ghanaians, civil society organisations and other activists join the demonstrators in the principal streets of Accra.<\/p>\n<p>But for Mr Ahiagba, the only justification he sees in the protest is the display of democracy and nothing beyond that.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1377039940&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo the only basis in my view that perhaps the demonstrators have this morning to be on the street is democratic. But in terms of the substantive issue to say that government or President has done anything incidental to cause them to be on the street, I don\u2019t see it,\u201d he said on <strong>JoyNews<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"546\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-75-1024x546.png\" alt=\"No basis for 'Ku Me Preko' demonstration, hardship purely incidental - Richard Ahiagbah to protestors\" class=\"wp-image-10032203580 lazy\"  data- title=\"No basis for 'Ku Me Preko' demonstration, hardship purely incidental - Richard Ahiagbah to protestors\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>On the angle of hardship being suffered under the NPP administration, the Communications Director insisted that the causes of these factors have nothing to do with domestic activities.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-myjoyonline-com wp-block-embed-myjoyonline-com\"\/>\n<p>The President and government communicators have constantly pointed fingers at Covid-19 and the Russia-Ukraine war as major contributors to Ghana\u2019s economic woes.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"683\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Ku-Me-Preko-Reloaded-demo-2-1024x683.jpeg\" alt=\"No basis for 'Ku Me Preko' demonstration, hardship purely incidental - Richard Ahiagbah to protestors\" class=\"wp-image-10032203480 lazy\"  data- title=\"No basis for 'Ku Me Preko' demonstration, hardship purely incidental - Richard Ahiagbah to protestors\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Speaking on Newsfile on Saturday, Mr Ahiagba explained that he has assessed the President\u2019s journey and \u201cyou can find one single basis for the behavior suddenly, in these times.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGhana is going through hardship. That hardship can be explained can be rationalized. The President spoke about it and the data shows exactly that there are incidental issues that are beyond our control that is forcing the situation on us,\u201d he told Samson Anyenini.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana is currently at the doors of the IMF for a possible $3 billion bailout amid intensifying hardship, skyrocketing fuel prices, a rising cost of living and a depreciating cedi.<\/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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Director of Communications for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Richard Ahiagbah has downplayed the rationale behind the \u2018Ku Me Preko\u2019 demonstration. According to him, the action which saw Ghanaians lament that government has not done enough to alleviate the plight of citizens in the struggling economy is baseless. Today\u2019s protest saw a section of Ghanaians, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1244647,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1244645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244645","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=1244645"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1244645\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1244645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1244645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1244645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}