The Bono Regional Chairman of the Ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) Mr. Kwame Baffoe Abronye has asked Ghanaians to appreciate the Nana Akufo-Addo government because despite the global challenges Ghanaians don’t queue for basic necessities.
In a recent radio interview in Sunyani the NPP chairman observed that Ghana as a developing country has faced serious global crises including COVID-19, but due to the good governance, the country is on the right path, in all various sectors of the economy.
He said many people in advanced countries across the globe are still going through worse circumstances than Ghanaians faced, including Lebanon, a country which once boasted the nickname “Switzerland of the Middle East” for its thriving banking sector, where citizens have to queue for hours every day just to buy bread.
Abronye recalled that in Uganda, President Yoweri Museveni recently in an address during the Labour Day Celebrations told Ugandans to opt for cassava if they cannot find bread due to the skyrocketing prices of essential commodities, however
“He added that the story is different in Ghana because President Akufo-Addo has ensured that nothing is scarce in the country”, chairman Abronye added.
According to chairman Abronye, Ghana would have been worse if the world crisis had happened under the leadership of the National Democratic Congress (NDC).
He said “Ghanaians would have been queuing to buy fuel and accessing other amenities if these global crises had happened under the NDC and John Mahama”.
“I agree that we are in hard times, which the president himself has also admitted but I can confidently say that had it not been for the good policies laid down by the NPP government, the situation would have been worse, therefore, am urging all meaningful Ghanaians not to fall for the propaganda that the world crisis has no effect on Ghana’s economy”, Abronye said.
“Covid-19 has been a bad omen for Ghanaians, but the way the government handled the pandemic led to lesser infection rates and cases. If Ghana was under the government of John Dramani Mahama Ghana would have been in a pit”, he explained further.
“This is because the NDC government during the previous administration showed that it had problems in addressing national issues and Ghanaians should be thankful to the President because he saved the country during COVID”, he said.
Chairman Abronye pointed out that checks have revealed that even some streets of giant countries in Europe go dark in the night as a result of the global energy crisis. He added that to solve economic woes, Egypt turns off city street lights and has introduced new austerity measures to aid its weak economy.
“In Egypt there is a whole set of new austerity measures that leaves streets, squares, shops and malls without lighting after 11 p.m.”, he said. Chairman Abronye said Spain has ordered shops to turn their lights off at night, while Berlin is switching off the spotlights illuminating 200 of its historic buildings and monuments.
A number of towns and cities in Austria, Germany and Italy have also reduced street lighting or turned off commercial signs. In France, 14 communities in the Val d’Oise department north of Paris are to fully switch off public lighting at night.
Local authorities estimate shutting off street lights for three-and-a-half hours every night. The towns join some 12,000 communities in France that already either fully or partially switch off public lighting at night.
Finland and Bulgarian towns want to do without street lighting at night after gas supplies from Russia were interrupted by the Ukraine-Russia conflict.
Chairman Abronye, however insisted that the president has done well to ensure that our power is on all the time for which the nation must be thankful to him
