A renowned economist and a leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Pianim says the party\u2019s decision to boycott the National Economic Forum was a wrong move.<\/p>\n
He disclosed that he was out of the country when the NPP made the decision but \u201cif they had sought my opinion, I would have said don\u2019t do this. This is the third time we are doing it [boycotting a national event] and it is not good.\u201d<\/p>\n
The NPP on Monday announced its decision to boycott the National Economic Forum being organized by government to find solutions to Ghana’s current economic crisis.<\/p>\n
They described the Forum as a PR gimmick and propaganda tool being used by government to delude the populace of the true state of the Ghanaian economy.<\/p>\n
Nonetheless, stakeholders who were invited to the Forum honoured the invitation with the exception of the NPP.<\/p>\n
The Forum started on Tuesday and was opened by the President John Mahama who in his open remarks condemned the posturing of the NPP.<\/p>\n
In an interview with Citi News<\/strong>, Mr. Pianim who is the only NPP member at the Forum said it is time for Ghanaians to \u201cput our political colours aside and act as Ghanaians.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cWhen you go and watch Kotoko and Hearts, do you ask whether your party people are coming? No. I think it is sad and I think maybe it was a mistake\u201d<\/p>\n He complained that politics in Ghana is too focused on the next election but \u201cwe need to get to a stage where once we elect a party into power, at least for three years, there should be no politics.\u201d<\/p>\n He added that nine months to the next general elections, \u201cwe can do politics.\u201d<\/p>\n The NPP stalwart maintained that his suggestion is feasible because the concentration on political issues to the detriment of national issues is hurting the economic fortunes of the country.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Benjamin Epton Owusu\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A renowned economist and a leading member of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwame Pianim says the party\u2019s decision to boycott the National Economic Forum was a wrong move. He disclosed that he was out of the country when the NPP made the decision but \u201cif they had sought my opinion, I would have said […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":18377,"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":[5],"tags":[118,255,43,424,657,38],"class_list":["post-18362","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-advertisers-association-of-ghana","tag-airtel","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-google-pixel","tag-lpg-marketing-companies-association-of-ghana","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18362","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=18362"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18362\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/18377"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18362"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18362"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18362"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}