{"id":10888,"date":"2014-04-04T07:41:19","date_gmt":"2014-04-04T07:41:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=10888"},"modified":"2014-04-04T12:02:17","modified_gmt":"2014-04-04T12:02:17","slug":"blame-mahamas-incompetence-for-economic-challenges-kt-hammond","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=10888","title":{"rendered":"Blame Mahama&#8217;s incompetence for economic challenges \u2013 KT Hammond"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6847\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6847\" style=\"width: 956px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/kt-hammond1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-6847\" alt=\"kt hammond\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/kt-hammond1.jpg\" width=\"956\" height=\"507\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/kt-hammond1.jpg 956w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/kt-hammond1-300x160.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/kt-hammond1-620x330.jpg 620w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 956px) 100vw, 956px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6847\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">KT Hammond<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: left;\">The Minority Spokesperson on Energy, KT Hammond has criticized government over the recent hikes in petroleum products and utilities.<\/p>\n<p>The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) recently increased prices for various petroleum prices. Petrol went up by 7.06percent, diesel by 5.25 percent and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) by 4.74 percent.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr. Hammond, who also is the MP for Adansi Asokwa, the current economic challenge the country is facing is a result of the incompetence of the Mahama administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhy should petroleum prices be consistently increased? Why should we be subjected to the incompetence of the administration and the economic mismanagement of this country? It is simply this; someone is not managing our cedi well,\u201d he lamented<\/p>\n<p>In his opinion, things can only change if government fixes the exchange rate battle between the cedi and its foreign exchange partners.<\/p>\n<p>Government \u00a0has come under criticisms for the depreciating cedi and other economic challenges facing the country.<\/p>\n<p>An economist, Dr. Mahamadu Bawumia recently said Ghana\u2019s economy is crises situation.<\/p>\n<p>According to him,Ghana might resort to the International Monetary Fund(IMF) for a bail out from the ailing economy.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that \u201cgovernment should as a matter of policy and urgency, significantly cut down on borrowing for now. The government should anchor fiscal policy on a debt reduction target and immediately announce it.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Reacting to the statement by Dr. Bawumia, Mr. Seth Terkper stated that \u00a0government had not ruled out a bailout by the IMF to help restore economic stability.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minority Spokesperson on Energy, KT Hammond has criticized government over the recent hikes in petroleum products and utilities. The National Petroleum Authority (NPA) recently increased prices for various petroleum prices. Petrol went up by 7.06percent, diesel by 5.25 percent and Liquefied Petroleum Gas (LPG) by 4.74 percent. According to Mr. Hammond, who also is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":6846,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38,17],"class_list":["post-10888","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10888","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10888"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10888\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10888"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10888"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10888"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}