Government already addressing protesters concerns— Oppong Nkrumah
The Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has disclosed that the concerns raised by the National Democratic Congress (NDC) during the “March for justice” protest are already being addressed by the government.
According to him, government has expedite actions to tackle security threats and to shield the citizenry from any attack.
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Speaking in a media interview in Accra yesterday, Mr Oppong Nkrumah indicated that government has launched a National Security Strategy which seeks to address security concerns.
“Those who are tagging the phenomenon of excesses of security as new are not being truthful. What is the government doing about it? We have launched investigations and are looking at getting the report and recommendations to nip the phenomenon in the bud,” he added.
Touching on measures to boost the economy, he assured that the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has already put in place measures to revive Ghana’s economy.
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“We literally had to throw away all the gains we made three years into our first term to protect lives. Today, it has come to the point Osei-Kyei-Mensah-Bonsu foretold when reading the budget in Parliament that we are going to go through a difficult phase of recovery. Things are not the same as they were, not just in Ghana, but around the world. We have already put in place measures to revive the economy,” he defended.
The Youth Wing of the NDC hit the street of Accra on Tuesday, July 6, 2021, to protest what they termed as injustice in Ghana under the government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo.
The protest started from the Accra Mall area at Tetteh Quarshie interchange and ended at the Parliament house.
They submitted a petition to the presidency as well as the leadership of parliament.
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However, the minister said “The substance of the issues they raised, economic hardships, security challenges, among others, are things that the government has already been speaking about”.”
He explained that “If you take economic challenges, in March 2020, the President forewarned us that despite the growth and gradual improvement that we were seeing, we were going to sacrifice some things to protect lives and livelihoods because we know how to bring the economy back to life, but we do not know how to bring people back to life.”
Mr Oppong Nkrumah called on the citizenry to support the government as it fights to build the country in a better way that everyone would be proud of.
Source: www.spotonnews.net