{"id":97233,"date":"2015-03-07T07:03:32","date_gmt":"2015-03-07T07:03:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=97233"},"modified":"2015-03-07T07:03:32","modified_gmt":"2015-03-07T07:03:32","slug":"eliminate-corruption-and-profligacy-nana-addo-to-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=97233","title":{"rendered":"Eliminate corruption and profligacy- Nana Addo\u00a0to Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The 2016 presidential aspirant of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Akufo Addo has challenged President John Mahama to <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/03\/02\/clean-corruption-image-at-flagstaff-house-nana-addo-charges-mahama\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>eliminate corruption<\/strong><\/a><\/span> and profligacy in his government to ensure national development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;JqiKKLXgNq5QNuoS0JhV7Qlg0aBhn07e&#8221;]According to the Nana Akufo Addo, the country is far from achieving economic growth due to corruption and profligacy and urged the president to institute policies that will promote national development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He made the remarks to <strong>Citi News<\/strong> after the 58<sup>th<\/sup> celebration of Ghana\u2019s <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/03\/06\/stop-the-purposeless-lamentation-over-ghanas-challenges-mahama\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Independence Day commemoration<\/strong><\/a><\/span> at the independence Square.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_9727.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-97203\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_9727.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_9727\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_9727.jpg 600w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/IMG_9727-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cEliminating corruption and waste, bringing our country back to macro economic stability, forming the correct set of policies and this is what will bring our country back to the path of growth,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Nana Akufo Addo reiterated that Ghana was a country of enormous potential and added that \u201ccut out waste, cut out profligacy, cut out corruption and bring back stability to the management of our economy\u201d.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He also challenged Presiden Mahama to act on the various commitments he made in his address to the nation during the independence celebration.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe have reached a state in our history where it is the action and policy that matter. What matters is not so much the words but the actions and policies that will follow the words,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Franklin Badu Jnr\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 2016 presidential aspirant of the New Patriotic Party, Nana Akufo Addo has challenged President John Mahama to eliminate corruption and profligacy in his government to ensure national development. 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