{"id":162888,"date":"2015-10-28T07:08:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-28T07:08:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=162888"},"modified":"2015-10-28T08:48:31","modified_gmt":"2015-10-28T08:48:31","slug":"i-will-not-overspend-in-2016-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2015\/10\/i-will-not-overspend-in-2016-mahama\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;I will not overspend in 2016&#8217; &#8211; Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President John Dramani Mahama has restated his commitment to ensuring that government maintains its fiscal discipline, and not succumb to any election year pressures to <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/08\/06\/imf-programme-is-ghanas-last-bailout-mahama\/\" target=\"_blank\">overspend its budget<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The President who is currently in India was speaking to some Ghanaian students studying in various institutions in India.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;vZXybF2RmIP59EE7gOfxOpUZeY5R5fgI&#8221;]\u201cDuring election years there is a temptation to open up expenditure because of the pressures from chiefs and the voters during the campaigns, so I am going to make myself blind to some of these things,\u201d President Mahama said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/22523034565_b7abd58d64_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-162893 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/22523034565_b7abd58d64_z.jpg\" alt=\"India students\" width=\"560\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/22523034565_b7abd58d64_z.jpg 560w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/22523034565_b7abd58d64_z-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He added, \u201calso, you get a lot of pressure from labour since they consider you to be in a very sensitive time hence this is the time to put pressure and extract a pound of flesh and when that happens you find out that the budget is disorganized\u2026so we are going to maintain expenditure this time around.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr. Mahama further explained to the gathering how the IMF Programme was helping stabilize the Ghanaian economy.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/22522768565_a729d06c4e_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-162895 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/22522768565_a729d06c4e_z.jpg\" alt=\"Mahama India\" width=\"560\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/22522768565_a729d06c4e_z.jpg 560w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/22522768565_a729d06c4e_z-300x214.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 560px) 100vw, 560px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Mahama also spoke about his Agenda for Transformation, and how Ghana&#8217;s relations with India will help push that Agenda.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The President who is in India to participate in the India-Africa Summit Forum noted that government was already working with India to produce sugar, and also revamp the western rail line.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/22336213809_35b225847b_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-162891 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/22336213809_35b225847b_z.jpg\" alt=\"Mahama India 3\" width=\"559\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/22336213809_35b225847b_z.jpg 559w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/22336213809_35b225847b_z-300x215.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 559px) 100vw, 559px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile President\u00a0Mahama will later today, hold bilateral talks with the Indian Prime Minister, officials of the Indian EXIM Bank and the CEOs of a number of Indian businesses.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Pius Amihere Eduku\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President John Dramani Mahama has restated his commitment to ensuring that government maintains its fiscal discipline, and not succumb to any election year pressures to overspend its budget. 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