{"id":246910,"date":"2016-09-08T20:09:50","date_gmt":"2016-09-08T20:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=246910"},"modified":"2016-09-08T20:09:50","modified_gmt":"2016-09-08T20:09:50","slug":"bawumias-lecture-on-ghanas-economy-full-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=246910","title":{"rendered":"Bawumia&#8217;s lecture on Ghana&#8217;s economy [Full Audio]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The New Patriotic Party&#8217;s running mate, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, on Thursday, September 8, 2016, delivered a lecture on what he called the state of Ghana&#8217;s economy.<\/p>\n<p>The lecture was held at the National Theatre under the theme, \u201cThe state of the Ghanaian economy \u2013 A foundation of concrete or straw&#8221; and\u00a0was chaired by former President John Agyekum Kufuor.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Bawumia touched on Ghana&#8217;s bailout programme with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), decline in the country&#8217;s per capita income, fiscal deficit, infrastructure, agriculture, among others.<\/p>\n<p>He used the opportunity to rubbish President Mahama and the National Democratic Congress&#8217; supposed \u00a0achievements in the last eight years, and highlighted on what the NPP will do if given the mandate on December 7, 2016.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click below to listen to full audio:<\/strong><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/282002997&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The New Patriotic Party&#8217;s running mate, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, on Thursday, September 8, 2016, delivered a lecture on what he called the state of Ghana&#8217;s economy. The lecture was held at the National Theatre under the theme, \u201cThe state of the Ghanaian economy \u2013 A foundation of concrete or straw&#8221; and\u00a0was chaired by former President [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":246916,"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":[5,11],"tags":[11723,389,3,11724,11720,56],"class_list":["post-246910","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories","tag-audio","tag-bawumia","tag-ghana-news","tag-gheleciton","tag-lecture","tag-npp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246910","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=246910"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246910\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/246916"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=246910"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=246910"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=246910"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}