The government has also announced that at least\u00a0<\/a>173 factories<\/span><\/strong><\/span>\u00a0<\/span>are in the process of being rolled out, as part of its ‘One District, One Factory’ programme, while the\u00a0\u00a0National ID Card<\/strong><\/a><\/span> and National Digital Property Addressing System<\/strong><\/a><\/span> were recently rolled out.<\/p>\n According to the Finance Minister, despite the precarious position in which the Mahama government had left the economy, the government had succeeded in implementing a number of the targets, whilst others were set to take off.<\/p>\n “With the little inherited from the Mahama Government, our performance these ten months are indeed nothing less than a miracle as evidenced by the blessings and achievements I have just enumerated,” he said.<\/p>\n Members of the Minority raised pieces of papers with ‘419’ scribbled on them, a suggestion that the government had put out deceptive information, as they had done at the budget reading in March 2017.<\/p>\n However, the Finance Minister took the heckling in his stride, and quoting the Bible, alluded to the fact that the sacrifices and efforts of the government had been rewarded with success.<\/p>\n “In my debut appearance in this august House, my backbencher friends across the aisle traded Bible quotations with me, as I invoked the miracle of Jesus feeding the 5,000 with five loaves of bread, and three fishes (Mathew 13), they responded with Philippians 4:19 \u201cAnd my God will meet all your needs according to the riches of His glory in Christ Jesus,” he said.<\/p>\n “I can only add that the combination of Philippians 4:19, and Mathew 13, hard work and obedience have greatly benefited our dear country.”<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonlne.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta has described the achievements chalked by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government, ten months into their tenure given how little the previous administration had\u00a0left in the nation’s coffers as a “miracle.” Ken Ofori Atta, reading the government’s budget and policy statement today [Wednesday] for 2018, listed a number of programmes […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11655,58,10,11],"tags":[11525,3,2254,129],"class_list":["post-374028","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ghbudget-2018","category-politics","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-budget-2018","tag-ghana-news","tag-ken-ofori-atta","tag-ndc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374028","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=374028"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/374028\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=374028"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=374028"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=374028"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/4191.jpg\")
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