{"id":1264584,"date":"2022-12-13T11:07:24","date_gmt":"2022-12-13T11:07:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/13\/to-god-be-the-glory-ofori-atta-exclaims-as-imf-announces-deal\/"},"modified":"2022-12-13T11:07:24","modified_gmt":"2022-12-13T11:07:24","slug":"to-god-be-the-glory-ofori-atta-exclaims-as-imf-announces-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/13\/to-god-be-the-glory-ofori-atta-exclaims-as-imf-announces-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"To God be the glory! &#8211; Ofori-Atta exclaims as IMF announces deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"371\"  alt=\"\" title=\"Ken-Ofori-Atta\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1669291372_645_Ken-Ofori-Atta.jpg\" data- class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image lazyload\"\/><noscript><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"371\" class=\"entry-thumb td-modal-image\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1669291372_645_Ken-Ofori-Atta.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Ken-Ofori-Atta\"\/><\/noscript><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Finance Miister<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><strong>Minister of Finance Kenneth Nana Yaw Kuntunkunuku Ofori-Atta has expressed gratitude to the \u201cindefatigable\u201d team of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in reaching a staff-level agreement with Ghana for a $3-billion extended credit facility.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He also thanked the President and the Vice President as well as his deputies for the hardwork put in the past five months to secure such a \u201chistoric\u201d agreement within a short period.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Ofori-Atta was speaking on Tuesday, December 13 at a joint press conference with the IMF following the reaching of the staff-level agreement.<\/p>\n<p>At the conference, the IMF, represented by Mission Chief St\u00e9phane Roudet, admitted that Ghanaian authorities have committed to a wide-ranging economic reforms to make the programme successful.<\/p>\n<p>But Mr Roudet said sufficient assurances are still needed on some areas, particularly on debt restructuring, to goad the Management and Executive Board to approve the programme.<\/p>\n<p>The Finance Minister pledged the country\u2019s commitment to honour its part of the bargain to make the programme successful.<\/p>\n<p>He was, consequently, grateful to God for the development.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIndeed, to God be the glory, for these great things He has done within five months,\u201d Mr Ofori-Atta told journalists and all gathered at the press conference.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am certain that He who began a good work will continue until it is finally finished.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cGreater things I believe He will do and let us all gather the harvest with joy. These indeed are both times for a Joseph recovery and also a Nehemiah rebuilding.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/kwame_amoh?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @kwame_amoh<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Finance Miister Minister of Finance Kenneth Nana Yaw Kuntunkunuku Ofori-Atta has expressed gratitude to the \u201cindefatigable\u201d team of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) in reaching a staff-level agreement with Ghana for a $3-billion extended credit facility. He also thanked the President and the Vice President as well as his deputies for the hardwork put in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1257142,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[1082,807,29774,804,540,3074,2089],"class_list":["post-1264584","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-announces","tag-deal","tag-exclaims","tag-glory","tag-god","tag-imf","tag-oforiatta"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264584","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=1264584"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1264584\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1264584"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1264584"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1264584"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}