The former first vice chairman for NPP Japan branch, Mr Michael Awuah has pleaded with the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) to focus on making the economy friendly than focusing on ‘breaking the eight.’
According to him, it is only a few bootlickers on social media who are championing the agenda and seeking to push it down the throats of the masse.
He noted that most of the party members are not happy about the economic situation which needs to be tackled at all cost.
“The citizens in this country are suffering under the hardship of things and yet the focus is on breaking the eighth. Day in day out transportation, food, utility and everything keeps on going higher whiles the salary of workers remains the same and yet focuses on breaking the eight.
“Ghanaians will vote and vote massively for NPP in upcoming general elections in 2024 to break the eighth if they find that the economy is now moving well with low GDP, good road, seeing good infrastructure. Your works will determine if you can break the eight or not but not just talking matter.
“Forget about the few amateur bootlickers who are on social media shouting on top of their voices “break the 8″. They have no idea what it will take to ‘break the 8.’ Breaking the 8 is not a child’s play as they think. They never knew how the party lost power in 2008 but their bosses who were into politics then might know. The party failed to ‘break the 8′ then because our supporters and citizens in the country were dissatisfied,” he stated.
He pleaded with government to ban the black market to free cedi against the dollar. “The government should put in place security measures to arrest or put a stop to the black market so that all concentration of buying and selling of the dollar (foreign currency) will be at commercial banks. This will help in the stability of the cedis. We shouldn’t sit for some people to destroy the currency of the country.
“As of yesterday, the buying price was 8.2644 and selling price was 8.2626. At a forex bureau in Accra, the dollar is bought at a rate of 10.12 and sold at a rate of 10.38. How can the rate from commercial banks be different from foreign exchange bureaus’ rate,” he fumes.
He added, “Even though COVID-19, Russia and Ukraine war is another factor but the citizen out there don’t know the implications on the country so is up to the communication team to go on grounds to educate the citizens but not to be out of campaigning breaking the 8.
“It is about time you go after those people so that your citizen will be fine because they are making things hard in the country including, we those doing business outside the country. It’s time to break the hardship before breaking the eight.”
Source: Modern Ghana
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