{"id":2566,"date":"2014-02-27T06:22:19","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T06:22:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=2566"},"modified":"2014-02-27T10:00:28","modified_gmt":"2014-02-27T10:00:28","slug":"dont-compare-ghana-to-malaysia-kofi-adams","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=2566","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t compare Ghana to Malaysia \u2013 Kofi Adams"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Kofi Adams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The office of former President Jerry Rawlings says it is unfair for people to compare Ghana’s \u00a0development\u00a0to<\/span> non African countries.<\/p>\n

This follows comments made by a leading member of the Conventions People\u2019s Party (CPP), Professor Badu Akosa<\/span> stating that Ghana’s \u00a0 development stagnated and retrogressed under the Rawlings regime.<\/p>\n

He cited Malaysia as a country which gained independence within the same period as Ghana but is far ahead in terms of development.<\/p>\n

But in response, Mr. Rawlings\u2019 spokesperson, Kofi Adams questioned why a comparison was rather not made between Ghana and Togo, Burkina Faso, Nigeria and a host of other African countries.<\/p>\n

He insisted that persons who make such developmental comparisons \u201cneed to do a regional analysis and ask yourself, what was the performance of Ghana vis a vis the other countries around which equally also had same heads<\/span> for a very long time.\u201d<\/p>\n

According to him, such regional comparisons will reveal \u201cthe conditions under which West African countries were operating and the conditions under which the Malay regions also operating.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mr. Adams recalled that under the Rawlings regime, an expansion was seen in Ghana\u2019s electrification and water production adding<\/span> that the country was not totally healthy when Ex-President Rawlings took over.<\/p>\n

He mentioned that Rawlings took over a country \u201cthat was having inflations in their thousands, a country that was having a negative GDP at the time that it was taken over and moved to a positive figures<\/span>, a country that virtually had no motorable roads if you take out the motor way<\/span>\u2026<\/span>so how can you talk that way.\u201d<\/p>\n

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By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The office of former President Jerry Rawlings says it is unfair for people to compare Ghana’s \u00a0development\u00a0to non African countries. This follows comments made by a leading member of the Conventions People\u2019s Party (CPP), Professor Badu Akosa stating that Ghana’s \u00a0 development stagnated and retrogressed under the Rawlings regime. He cited Malaysia as a country […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2569,"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":[43,38],"class_list":["post-2566","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2566"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2566\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2566"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2566"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2566"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}