Nana Obofour said that due to false reports on the situation in Ghana, who “lie \u00a0because they are afraid that if they don’t, we won’t give them pounds…,we listen to Citi FM<\/strong> and all the media houses, so everything that happens in Ghana we know.”<\/p>\n “We live in the UK but we know what is going on in Ghana., the economy, the IMF bailout and that the inflation is now 16.5 percent,” he lamented.<\/p>\n “So for the president to come to the UK and tell us that we don’t cross-check facts and we don’t know anything in Ghana is unfortunate. So we think the President has insulted our intelligence and he must apologise that is why we are going there [to protest].”<\/p>\n In August, Ghanaians living in the United States\u00a0demonstrated over the state of the Ghanaian economy<\/a><\/span><\/strong> when President Mahama arrived in that country for the US-Africa Leaders Summit.<\/p>\n According to them: \u2018\u2019\u2026 the<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/span> demonstration is to show our [Ghanaians abroad] expression of unhappiness about the hardship in Ghana and the mismanagement of the country.\u2019\u2019<\/p>\n An Afrobarometer report on Ghana recently stated that\u00a0that 76 percent of Ghanaians<\/strong><\/a> <\/span>blame government for failing to improve their living standards.<\/p>\n Government has since rubbished the report, with the Deputy Communication Minister, Felix Kwakye-Ofosu, saying\u00a0the fact that 750 people out of the 2,400 respondents were selected from the Ashanti and Eastern regions compromises the political objectivity of the findings.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n![\"uk](\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/10\/uk-demo-2.jpg\")
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