{"id":79490,"date":"2015-01-05T18:04:37","date_gmt":"2015-01-05T18:04:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=79490"},"modified":"2015-01-05T18:12:58","modified_gmt":"2015-01-05T18:12:58","slug":"sacrifice-and-stop-making-demands-from-govt-kwame-pianim-to-ghanaians","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=79490","title":{"rendered":"Sacrifice and stop making demands from gov&#8217;t &#8211; Kwame Pianim to Ghanaians"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Economist,\u00a0Kwame Pianim has\u00a0entreated Ghanaians to refrain from making huge demands from government to enable the President focus on fixing the ailing economy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He advised that instead of making constant demands, citizens must make the effort to support themselves the best way they can.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/mahama1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-72360\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/mahama1.jpg\" alt=\"mahama\" width=\"768\" height=\"559\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/mahama1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/mahama1-300x218.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;CjtoWBvdq8y9s5exJkgnuuxY4P0prrGW&#8221;]&#8221;It is us who make demands on our government and we all should know that we need to be able to support ourselves. We need to sacrifice&#8230; if you are making demands on the government, relax it,&#8221; he remarked.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The economist also urged Ghanaians to &#8220;pay \u00a0for the right tariff for electricity, right tariff for power, don\u2019t let us depend on subsidy of fuel. I think that Ghana has a future but it has to start now with restoring macroeconomic stability.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is predicting doom for the Ghanaian economy if governments fails to be\u00a0fiscally disciplined by\u00a0cutting\u00a0down on reckless expenditure.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The government came under massive criticism in 2014 for the various socio-economic challenges which affected the nation.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">This compelled the government to seek an economic bailout <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/10\/13\/ghanas-economy-needs-extra-work-imf\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>programme with the International Monetary Fund<\/strong><\/a><\/span> (IMF) aimed at salvaging the ailing economy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking in an interview with <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, Mr. Pianim insisted that \u00a0\u201cif we don\u2019t have fiscal discipline &#8230;if we don\u2019t cut expenditures on big projects to reflect cost, then we are going to be in trouble.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He suggested that the government must &#8220;prioritize on expenditure and in some areas, we have to spend more to bring in the right quality of people to be able to help us grow the economy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He was optimistic that the programme with the IMF will help Ghana immensely and therefore called on the general public to support the\u00a0IMF bailout programme.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Economist,\u00a0Kwame Pianim has\u00a0entreated Ghanaians to refrain from making huge demands from government to enable the President focus on fixing the ailing economy. He advised that instead of making constant demands, citizens must make the effort to support themselves the best way they can. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;CjtoWBvdq8y9s5exJkgnuuxY4P0prrGW&#8221;]&#8221;It is us who make demands on our government and we [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":66678,"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":[],"tags":[43,38,21,4],"class_list":["post-79490","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-psychiatric","tag-st-augustines-college"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79490","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=79490"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/79490\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=79490"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=79490"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=79490"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}