Ken Ofori-Atta, the Minister of Finance has revealed his optimism in restoring the country’s burdened economy despite the ruins caused by the COVID-19 disease.
He said, though there had been some negative effects of the pandemic, the New Patriotic Party and its administration had put in key notable measures in dealing with these side effects imposed by the pandemic.
Mr. Ofori-Atta disclosed that, the agenda of the government was to raise about 100 billion Cedis to push the economy in this hard times.
“Since we came into power and inheriting arrears, the IMF programme and so forth; still since 2017, we have spent 900 million cedis on teacher trainees and nurses trainees which the NDC said it can never happen. In addition to that, feeding of children everyday, it used to be about 1.7 million children but we have reached almost 3 million that we feed everyday. We’ve been able to do that too. And when you take the free education that the opponents said we couldn’t do but now 1.2 million Senior High School…that also amouts to about GHC 3 billion. Someone will ask where did we get the money? Look at our introduction of NABCO that has created jobs for students who were stayed home for about 3-4 years without employment ,” the Finance Minister said.
” . . you can’t give up and when you don’t and you keep thinking and you care deeply about the people as a government that cares, things come up. Because one can get people to work, then you have innovation, you have productivity and you get more and different ideas. My hope is also rarely a deep, deep belief in the capacity of the Ghanaian if he’s supported,” he iterated.
Source: GHANAFEED.COM
