Government will from Monday to Wednesday conduct a series of engagements with key sector players within the Ghanaian economy to assess the impact of the economic mitigation measures that were announced in March this year.
The exercise is expected to enable the government to determine whether or not the measures have provided enough cushioning from the adverse effects of recent global crises.
Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah who disclosed this during an interview with journalists in Accra on Sunday said the engagements will also enable government ministers to examine what more may be done to support Ghanaians during these difficult times.
President Akufo-Addo met his Cabinet Ministers at a retreat earlier this year to take stock of the effects of the global crises and subsequently outlined response measures. The reliefs included the opening of the country’s land borders, easing of general COVID-19 restrictions, measures to arrest currency depreciation and the rising fuel prices occasioned by the global economic turmoil and the reduction of government expenditure.
This week's engagements will enable ministers to assess the impact of the measures in anticipation of a mid-year cabinet review.
Senior Advisor to the President, Yaw Osafo Marfo is expected to chair the engagements and report to the cabinet by Thursday. Ministers expected to participate include Minister for Agric, Dr. Owusu Afriyie Akoto, Minister for Transport, Kwaku Ofori Asiamah, Minister for Local Government and Rural Development, Daniel Botwe, Caretaker Minister for Gender, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, Minister for Trade, Alan Kyerematen and Minister for Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah.
Source: King Edward Ambrose Washman Addo/peacefmonline.com/ghana
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What interventions, if any, none has worked. Please don't go for any assessment only to end up spending more. The signs should tell you that your interventions has zero impact . From January 2022 to today, a friend in a government department told me they have not been given a pesewa to run the office. The challenge facing this particular elephant is that it has big ears like all other elephants but it doesn't listen, at best it will hear but won't listen. Is it the case that Akuffo Addo didn't learn anything under Kufuor as a cabinet minister? Under Kufuor we saw a vibrant NPP and a vibrant government . Kufuor should count himself lucky to have come before akuffo Addo . If akuffo Addo had come before him ie the presidency, Kufuor would never have been a president of Ghana . It was kufour's policies akuffo Addo used to campaign, school feeding, capitation grant, metro mass transport, millennium challenge account (N1 highway) , MASLOC , youth employment program, health insurance, 2 brand new stadia in tamale and takooradi ,brand new offices for the presidency, jubilee parks in all 10 regional capitals then, free maternity care for mothers, had very good relations with world Giants i.e. the queen, Tony Blair , Angela Merkel , Jacques Chirac , Shinzo Abe , George ***barred word*** from whom he got financial and budgetary support, Olusegun Obasinjo of Nigeria gave us fuel on credit payable every 3 months. What legacy is akuffo Addo leaving behind for the next NPP flag bearer to campaign on? If nana akomeah, Kwamena Dankan, Kennedy Agyapong , obiri boahen are all questioning the governance style of akuffo Addo something is wrong, nobody can be more NPP than these persons. Infact one of them said this is not the NPP he knows . This one is a direct opposite of the Kufuor one, NPP members are not laughing , NDC members are not laughing. The orphan is not laughing, the one who's father is alive is not laughing too. Unprecedented