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Governance Analyst, Professor Baffour Agyeman-Duah, has urged politicians to exercise caution in making campaign promises ahead of the 2024 elections.<\/p>\n
His warning follows a surge of promises from leading political parties and presidential aspirants. According to Prof. Agyeman-Duah, the current economic challenges make it difficult to support some of these pledges, hence the need for restraint.<\/p>\n
In an interview with Citi News on Thursday, he also advised citizens to manage their expectations, emphasizing that not all promises made by politicians are feasible given the state of the economy.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think politicians take undue advantage of the lack of sophistication of the citizens to make all kinds of promises. Our current situation is that our economy is almost bankrupt, if not already bankrupt and we know that we cannot even go to the international market to borrow.<\/p>\n
\u201cIn view of all this, if somebody comes to tell you I\u2019m going to build you, going to buy you a plane, I\u2019m going to build you an airport, I\u2019m going to do this.<\/p>\n
\u201cYou have to ask yourself, is this possible? Is this possible? So, it\u2019s important for the politicians first to let the citizens know the nature of the economy of the country and, they cannot bypass that and make promises that they know too well the economy cannot carry at this time.<\/p>\n
\u201cIf they continue to do that, they make citizens lose trust in them and in that case, I don\u2019t know how our politics will be, played out in the future. So it\u2019s important for our politicians to be very measured in the promises that they give to the citizens,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n\n
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