{"id":762220,"date":"2022-01-23T00:53:30","date_gmt":"2022-01-23T00:53:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/23\/it-is-a-palpable-lie-american-based-journalist-reacts-to-a-statement-made-by-finance-minister\/"},"modified":"2022-01-23T00:53:30","modified_gmt":"2022-01-23T00:53:30","slug":"it-is-a-palpable-lie-american-based-journalist-reacts-to-a-statement-made-by-finance-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/23\/it-is-a-palpable-lie-american-based-journalist-reacts-to-a-statement-made-by-finance-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"It Is A Palpable Lie: American Based Journalist Reacts To A Statement Made By Finance Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/927cbc8134cf4d2ea71cb6eb7ae30943\"\/>The finance minister, Ken Ofori Atta, has publicly stated that the government will reduce it&#8217;s expenditure by 20%. This news was received by Ghanaians with much happiness. Kelvin Taylor, CEO of the Loud Silence TV, had a different view of this announcement from the finance minister. Whiles reacting to the announcement, Kelvin Taylor stated boldly that the government has no intentions of cutting its expenditure by 20%. According to him, this was a palpable lie through the teeth&#8217;s of the Finance Minister.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/c09e89b6870f417d84c62650cd95f2b0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Kelvin Taylor&#8217;s reason was that, the private jet alone which President Nana Addo Dankwa Akuffo Addo charters alone is approximately 20% of the government expenditure. He believed that if the Finance Minister and the NPP government wanted to really cut their expenditure, they will resort to the use of Ghana&#8217;s jet. According to him, Ken Ofori Atta only said that just to lure the MPs for the passage of the e-levy bill<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/loudsilenceradioandtv\/videos\/1254403021735926\/?app=fbl<\/p>\n<p>2:34:00-2:35:00<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Gentle.Blogger (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\">\nAmerican<br \/>\nKelvin Taylor<br \/>\nKen Ofori Atta<br \/>\nNPP<br \/>\nNana Addo Dankwa<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The finance minister, Ken Ofori Atta, has publicly stated that the government will reduce it&#8217;s expenditure by 20%. This news was received by Ghanaians with much happiness. Kelvin Taylor, CEO of the Loud Silence TV, had a different view of this announcement from the finance minister. Whiles reacting to the announcement, Kelvin Taylor stated boldly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":762221,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-762220","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762220","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=762220"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/762220\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=762220"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=762220"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=762220"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}