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General News on Wednesday, June 5th, 2019
Source: dailyguidenetwork.com
2019-06-05
President Nana Akufo-Addo
President Akufo-Addo said his government had inherited a $ 5.2 billion debt from Ghana's energy sector of the former administration of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), led by Mahama, whose half had been paid, while the rest was hanging over his neck. albatross.
Noting that the government was seriously working on debt reduction, he said: "I think that if I regret one thing about my presidency, it is that we did not attack these problems early enough ", adding that his administration should have done so in 2017 to avoid some of the current problems facing the sector.
"I learned my lesson. We are going to do a much better phase of reform of these agreements in order to lighten the burden. "
The president, who was speaking Sunday at a Ghanaian public meeting in Toronto, Canada, said the situations responsible for the constant power cuts that Ghanaians had to endure were led by the previous government led by Mahama.
Revival of the national airline
He added that in a month or two, the government would announce the reinstatement of a national airline.
"We are in the process of concluding an agreement with Ethiopian Airlines to partner with them to create a new … I do not know if it will be Ghana Airways," he said. even if he would prefer that the name Ghana Airways be maintained if that happened.
President Akufo-Addo listed several programs and policies implemented by his administration to badist Ghana's development process. Among these was the Free High High School program, which guaranteed free primary to secondary education; the digitization of the economy that had led to the replacement of paper bins in software applications such as the Paperless Ports Policy; the introduction of the "national identity card"; "One District, One Factory" policy; "A reduction of port taxes of between 30 and 50%"; "Plant for food and employment" and many more.
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