The former first vice chairman of the Japan branch of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Michael Awuah, has pleaded with the government to focus on making the economy friendly rather than focusing on the agenda of breaking the Eighth.
According to the him, it is only a few bootlickers on social media who are championing the agenda and seeking to push it down the throats of the masses. He said his own checks have revealed that most of the party members are not happy with the over concentration on the ‘Breaking the Eight’ and this according to him is due to the level economic hardships in the country.
“The citizens in these country are suffering under the hardship of things, yet our focus is on breaking the Eight?” he wondered.
“Day in day out transportation, food, utility and everything keeps on going higher whiles the salary of workers remain the same, yet we are focusing on breaking the eighth?”.
“He said Ghanaians will vote and vote massively for the NPP in the upcoming general elections in 2024 to break the eighth if they find that the economy is now moving well with low GDP, good road, seeing good infrastructure. Your works will determine if you can break the Eight, it is not just talking matter.
“Forget about the few amateur bootlickers who are on social media shouting on top of their voices “BREAK THE 8″. They have no idea what it will take to break the 8. Breaking the 8 is not a child play as they think. They never knew how the party lost power in 2008 but their bosses who were into politics then might know. The party failed to break the 8 then because our supporters and citizens in the country were dissatisfied,” he noted.
He plead with the government to do something about the black market so that the Cedi can cope with the dollar.
“There are thousands of Black markets in the country more than banks and they are damaging the growth of the cedi”.
“The government should put in place security measures to arrest or put a stop to the Black market trading so that all concentrations of buying and selling of the dollar (foreign currency) will be at commercial Banks, this will help in the stability of the cedi. We shouldn’t sit for some people to destroy the currency of the country,” he added.
“As at yesterday trading of buying price of 8.2644 and selling was at 8.2626. At a Forex Bureau in Accra, the dollar was bought at a rate of 10.12 and sold at a rate of 10.38. How can the rate from commercial Banks be different from foreign exchange bureaus,” he asked.
“Even though COVID-19, Russia and Ukraine war are another factor, the citizen out there don’t know the implications on the country so it is up to the communication team to go on grounds to educate the citizens of these country but not to be out campaigning for breaking the 8.
“It is about time you go after those people so that your citizen will be fine because they are making things hard in the country including we doing business outside the country. It’s time to break the hardship before breaking the eight (8),” he added.
By Eric Obeng Boateng