{"id":1253478,"date":"2022-11-18T14:25:20","date_gmt":"2022-11-18T14:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/18\/im-truly-sorry-ofori-atta-tells-ghanaians-on-economic-challenges\/"},"modified":"2022-11-18T14:25:20","modified_gmt":"2022-11-18T14:25:20","slug":"im-truly-sorry-ofori-atta-tells-ghanaians-on-economic-challenges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/18\/im-truly-sorry-ofori-atta-tells-ghanaians-on-economic-challenges\/","title":{"rendered":"I&#8217;m truly sorry &#8211; Ofori-Atta tells Ghanaians on economic challenges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\"  alt=\"\" title=\"Ofori-Atta censure\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Ofori-Atta-censure-696x522.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Ofori-Atta-censure-696x522.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Ofori-Atta censure\"\/><\/noscript><\/div>\n<p><strong>The Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has apologized to Ghanaians for the economic hardships they are going through.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Appearing before the 8-member ad hoc committee that is investigating the allegations against him made by the Minority, on Friday November 18, he said \u201cAs the person, President Akufo-Addo has put in charge of this economy, I feel the pain personally, professionally and in my soul.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI see and feel the terrible impact of rising prices of goods and services on the lives and livelihoods of ordinary Ghanaians, I feel the stress of running a business, but it is the strength and perseverance of the Ghanaian people that inspire me and my colleagues in government every morning\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He added \u201cThat is what gives me the strength to press on and to find solutions and relief for Ghanaians to the myriad of problems that our country and the rest of the world are facing, especially since March 2020. Co-chairs, let me use this opportunity to say to the Ghanaian people what I believe, with courage, every finance minister around the world, may wish to say to their people now: \u2018I am truly sorry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He further said he does not believe that the allegations made by the Minority in Parliament for his removal from has any weight behind it.<\/p>\n<p>He told the ad hoc committee hearing the censure motion on Friday November 18 that the proponents\u2019 allegations do not have \u201cweight for censure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ofori-Atta said each of the allegations leveled against him were false and went on to debunk each of them.<\/p>\n<p>On the allegation of deliberate misreporting of economic data to Parliament, he said it is completely not true.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince I took office in 2017, I have served the country with integrity and honesty.<br \/>\u201cUnder my leadership at the Ministry of Finance, there have been significant improvements in the accurate reporting of public finances.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cToday, under\u00a0President Nana Akufo-Addo, Ghanaians are enjoying greater accountability and transparency in the management of the public purse than any other period under the Fourth Republic.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Laud Nartey|3news.com|Ghana<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has apologized to Ghanaians for the economic hardships they are going through. Appearing before the 8-member ad hoc committee that is investigating the allegations against him made by the Minority, on Friday November 18, he said \u201cAs the person, President Akufo-Addo has put in charge of this economy, I feel [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1253480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[1923,3010,834,2089,700],"class_list":["post-1253478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-challenges","tag-economic","tag-ghanaians","tag-oforiatta","tag-tells"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253478","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=1253478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1253478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1253478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1253478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1253478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}