Former Deputy Ashanti regional Minister Joseph Yammin says it’s going to be all doom and gloom next near as far as the country’s economy is concerned.
In an interview with rawgist.com to assess the 2017 political year, the politician says things went haywire in the first year of the Akufo-Addo government.
“The year has been generally bad as compared to last year. Government policies aren’t working as expected. Look at the free SHS program for instance, the challenges keep compounding and the government has been unable to address them.” He insists there are serious challenges with accommodation, feeding and other aspects of the program.
He went ahead to talk about the One District, One Factory (1D1F) and how it couldn’t take off even though the president cut sod for its commencement. “The President stated 51 will be ready by end of 2017 but the trade minister also talks of 170 to take of in the first quarter of 2018. There’s not enough clarity regarding what they want to do”, he complained and stated that the story is not different with the One district one warehouse policy.
“The escalating fuel prices, Utility bills,contractors not being paid after a promise to pay them within the government’s first 100 days in office, difficulties paying trainee nurses their allowances and the almighty corruption in the government with the blatant cover ups by the presidency” are among the issues he ranked high in his assessment of the performance of the government in her first year.
Joseph Yammin projects that 2018 will be tougher considering the current economic situation in the country. “My new year prayer is for God to give us the strength he gave his son and our Lord Jesus Christ to fast for 40 days without dying and as he gave the Prophet Muhammed to fast for 30 days without dying to enable us live under this clearly incompetent government”, he prayed.
