{"id":374836,"date":"2017-11-18T07:53:20","date_gmt":"2017-11-18T07:53:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=374836"},"modified":"2017-11-18T07:52:10","modified_gmt":"2017-11-18T07:52:10","slug":"trust-us-were-delivering-on-our-promises-nana-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/11\/trust-us-were-delivering-on-our-promises-nana-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"Trust us, we&#8217;re delivering on our promises &#8211; Nana Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said that his administration has made enough strides in their first 11 months in office to earn the trust of Ghanaians in their ability to fulfil all of their promises during their tenure.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s important for trust in government and important for trust in politicians because they should be seen to be people of their word. You come and make a promise but when you get into office, you find all kinds of reasons to say I can\u2019t do it; it\u2019s not good for government,\u201d the President said.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;rU4RcvNk2XyECKwc66Z30EfY89jWksNM&#8221;]\u201cWe committed\u00a0[ourselves] and all the commitments that we\u2019ve made, gradually and systematically, we are beginning to realise them. They are things we thought about, long and deep in opposition and we believe that they were the way to putting our country on the way to progress and prosperity.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, on Wednesday, outlined the investments made by the government in various sectors, including in education, health, agriculture and energy.<\/p>\n<p>He announced tax reliefs for private universities and young entrepreneurs and added that the government was well on course to meeting its <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/11\/15\/ghbudget-govt-targets-6-8-growth-rate-in-2018\/\"><strong>macroeconomic targets<\/strong><\/a><\/span> for the year.<\/p>\n<p>He also stated that the government had revised the tariff-setting methodology and the cost structure for power production and would submit a recommendation to the PURC for an average\u00a0reduction of<a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/11\/15\/ghbudget-electricity-tariffs-to-be-reduced-by-13\/\"><strong>\u00a0between 13 and 21 percent<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0electricity tariffs for residential and industrial consumers.<\/p>\n<p>The President, who is currently on a three-day official visit to Qatar, also expressed satisfaction with the work done by his administration in the energy sector, stating that the power challenges that had plagued the country in the last five years have stabilised under his government&#8217;s watch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe\u2019re beginning to forget that there was a time where we had dumsor. Thank God, the situation is now stabilised and in this year\u2019s budget, Ofori-Atta has just announced that we are making proposals to the PURC to bring down electricity tariffs and rates to be able to stimulate industrial development,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe government is putting, before the PURC, a set of proposals, leading to a reduction in the electricity rate. For industrial consumers that can go to as high as a 25% reduction and for households, between 12 and 13%.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_374117\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-374117\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-full wp-image-374117\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/2018-budget-statement-delivered-by-ken-ofori-atta-34.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-374117\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">2018 budget<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>&#8216;Ken Ofori-Atta is a magician&#8217;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The President heaped praise on Finance Minister, Ken Ofori Atta for his efforts in ensuring that key government projects were financed, something which had been a major issue for critics.<\/p>\n<p>Ofori Atta himself had earlier described the achievements chalked by the New Patriotic Party (NPP) government, just months into their 4-year tenure as miraculous, given how little the previous administration had\u00a0left in the nation\u2019s coffers.<\/p>\n<p>His sentiments were echoed by Nana Akufo-Addo who described the Finance Minister as &#8220;a magician&#8221; for finding sources of funding in spite of the tough economic situation the country found itself in when they came into office.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said that his administration has made enough strides in their first 11 months in office to earn the trust of Ghanaians in their ability to fulfil all of their promises during their tenure. \u201cIt\u2019s important for trust in government and important for trust in politicians because they should be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[58,10,11],"tags":[2633,2254,312],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Trust us, we&#039;re delivering on our promises - Nana Addo - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. 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