President Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has said he would have acted if his ministers were underperforming because they were under continuous assessment.
His comment comes from calls for a reshuffle in his government especially with respect to the damning economic conditions.
“It is not that I am not listening to what people are saying. Public opinion is very important in our democracy but at the end of the day, I must make the judgement on whether some people should go,” he indicated at Kasoa during a two day visit to the Central Region.
Citing his past performance, President Akufo-Addo defended the Finance Minister, Kenneth Nana Yaw Ofori-Atta and said he was confident he will salvage Ghana from its economic turmoil.
This was in response to calls by the public for the minister to either resign or be sacked by the president for an abysmal performance.
“This same Finance Minister, people are calling for his head today is the very man who took us out of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme very successfully and helped us produce the 7.5 percent growth rate that we had before the COVID.
“People have forgotten that today because of the difficulty that we are having.
“But he is the same figure he hasn’t changed and I believe that he has the same determination to work to bring us out of this present state as he showed at the beginning of our government,” he noted.
President Akufo-Addo on Friday, cut the sod at Papaase for the construction of a 16-kilometre Kasoa-Bawjiase Road, estimated to cost GHC93.9 million and is expected to be completed in 2024.
He also unveiled a Gas Cylinder factory in Chochoe, and a Lubricant factory in the Gomoa East District at Fetteh, both under 1D1F and inspected the Agenda 111 project in Gomoa Afransi in the Gomoa Central constituency.
President Akufo-Addo, interacted with traditional rulers at Awutu Bereku and inspected the Komenda Sugar factory on Saturday morning and joined the Chiefs and people of Cape Coast at the durbar to climax this year’s Oguaa Fetu Afahye.
Source: Onuaonline.com|Ghana
