{"id":1268432,"date":"2022-12-21T12:28:33","date_gmt":"2022-12-21T12:28:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/21\/cedi-appreciation-is-artificial-its-real-value-will-stare-at-us-soon-fifi-kwetey\/"},"modified":"2022-12-21T12:28:33","modified_gmt":"2022-12-21T12:28:33","slug":"cedi-appreciation-is-artificial-its-real-value-will-stare-at-us-soon-fifi-kwetey","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/12\/21\/cedi-appreciation-is-artificial-its-real-value-will-stare-at-us-soon-fifi-kwetey\/","title":{"rendered":"Cedi Appreciation Is Artificial, Its Real Value Will Stare At Us Soon\u2013 Fifi Kwetey"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/6d0919c48f184d39ad00d98d7dee3416\" height=\"344\" width=\"600\"\/><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong style=\"background-color: transparent;\">The newly elected General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Fifi Fiavi Kwetey has cautioned the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) to stop gloating over the recent appreciation of the Ghana cedi against the United State dollar.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Mr Kwetey, who has served as a Deputy Minister for Finance, Minister for Agriculture and Transports, respectively, says although the appreciation of the cedi is a welcoming news to the people of Ghana because it will give them some form reprieve, what is happening, however, cannot be sustained because it is artificial.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">The real value of the cedi, he says, will soon be seen when those artificial factors driving the currency to appreciate die down.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u201cYou know, when it is that you have a situation where the massive importation into your country is not happening because, somehow, you have put a system in place where people cannot have access to, for example, the dollars to be able to do the importation, you create an artificial appreciation of your currency.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u201cThe same applies to different things that are happening as far as portfolio investors are concerned. So it is not anything to celebrate at all.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">\u201cThese are just short-term things that are artificial. The real sustainable situation is what we will see as soon as this artificial wind stops blowing, we will see exactly the real value of our currency\u201d, he said in an interview with Accra-based TV3.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">The value of the Ghanaian cedi has for the past two weeks been appreciating against the United State dollars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">But many Financial experts,  Fifi Kwetey, are of the view that the current appreciation is driven by artificial factors and not as a result of any measure or policy put in place by the government.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: transparent;\">Link to <\/span>video<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Kritiq (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\">\nCedi<br \/>\nFifi Fiavi Kwetey<br \/>\nFifi Kwetey<br \/>\nKwetey<br \/>\nNDC<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The newly elected General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Fifi Fiavi Kwetey has cautioned the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) to stop gloating over the recent appreciation of the Ghana cedi against the United State dollar. Mr Kwetey, who has served as a Deputy Minister for Finance, Minister for Agriculture and Transports, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1268433,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[4923,3872,672,21789,21790,555,29957],"class_list":["post-1268432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-appreciation","tag-artificial","tag-cedi","tag-fifi","tag-kwetey","tag-real","tag-stare"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268432","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=1268432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1268432\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1268432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1268432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1268432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}