{"id":973859,"date":"2022-02-02T17:12:00","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T17:12:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/02\/president-akufo-addo-throws-his-support-behind-the-e-levy-video\/"},"modified":"2022-02-02T17:12:00","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T17:12:00","slug":"president-akufo-addo-throws-his-support-behind-the-e-levy-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/02\/president-akufo-addo-throws-his-support-behind-the-e-levy-video\/","title":{"rendered":"President Akufo-Addo Throws His Support Behind The E-levy. (+Video)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ae91990da43d415ab74599cc96e2a85a\"\/>The president of Ghana, Nana Akufo Addo, has express his view on the E-levy. In a fast trending video on the internet, he has thrown his full support behind the E-levy and has promised to see the bill passed for the greater good of all Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p>According to President Akufo-Addo, &#8220;revenues during 2020\/2021 went down considerably because of the slowing down of the economic activities that came from Covid-19. At the same time, government, in other to keep the country going, did incur some expenditures on free water and free electricity&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;These are the efforts that we are now making which are being resisted by the opposition but we will try and close the gap&#8221; says Akufo-Addo. He added that, the hardship brought by Covid-19 have made it very important for the famous E-levy to be passed.<\/p>\n<p>Watch full video of President Akufo-Addo declaring his unflinching support to pass the E-levy in the video link below:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Akufo-Addo is not ready to drop the E-levy #ghana #elevy\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_zY11UiM7u4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Osheanews (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\">\nAkufo-Addo<br \/>\nE-levy<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nNana Akufo Addo<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The president of Ghana, Nana Akufo Addo, has express his view on the E-levy. In a fast trending video on the internet, he has thrown his full support behind the E-levy and has promised to see the bill passed for the greater good of all Ghanaians. According to President Akufo-Addo, &#8220;revenues during 2020\/2021 went down [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":973860,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973859","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\/973859","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=973859"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973859\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973859"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973859"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973859"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}