Since Mahama Left Power, Akufo-Addo Has Added GHc22 To Prices Of Cement – MP

Member of Parliament for Bole-Bamboi, Hon Alhaji Yusif Sulemana says President Akufo-Addo is to blame for the constant increase of cement prices in the country.

In a press statement dated April 25, 2021, the lawmaker bemoaned how the President before his ascension to power hoodwinked Ghanaians into believing that they would offer them better alternative to the John Dramani Mahama government but have woefully failed.

According to him, when the NDC government took over from President JA Kufour, a 50kg bag of cement sold at GHc9.20 and at the end of the NDC’s 8 years, the same bag sold for GHc31, an addition of GHc21.8 or GHc2.7 increase per year.

“Today, a little over 4 years since taking over, the Akufo-Addo-Bawumia government has added GHc22 to what it inherited i.e. GHc5.5 increase every year” further stating that; “For people that claim to be the competent managers of this economy, bestowing such hardship on individuals and businesses is shocking”.

“This is not what Ghanaians were promised. When president Akufo-Addo, then candidate Akufo-Addo, was all over describing the Mahama government as insensitive for selling fuel for GHc3.2 per litre, Ghanaians were justified to expect better”.

“When Dr Bawumia was moving from market to market asking for prices of goods for propaganda purposes, Ghanaians were justified to expect better and affordable prices of goods and services. Increasing taxes that were hitherto described as obnoxious is not better.

“Selling cement that hitherto sold for GHc31 at GHc53 is definitely not better”; the Bole MP said.

Source: GhanaFeed.com