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The hour has come. The president, Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo is here in Parliament to carry out a constitutional obligation enshrined in Article 67 of the 1992 Constitution.
In that article, he is expected to tell Ghanaians, through their parliamentarians, the state of the nation.
This will be his second address to Parliament after he won the December 2016 elections.
In the last 12 months, the power paralysis popularly called dumsor has been minimized, free Senior High School policy has been implemented, albeit with some challenges; a digital address system has been put in place with some stability in macroeconomic figures.
There have also been outbreaks of meningitis and swine flu which have claimed lives especially of school children at the SHS level. Fuel prices remain high which has triggered the very first demonstration under the new administration.
This morning the president is in Parliament to tell Ghanaians the true state of the nation.
He is welcomed to a presidential ceremony at the forecourt of the precincts of the Parliament House before being ushered onto the floor of Parliament. In Parliament are ex-presidents Rawlings, Kufuor and Mahama, and their wives and other dignitaries.
Speaker Prof Mike Ocquaye introduces the president to the dignitaries and vice versa and asks the president to begin his state of the nation address.
Majority oppression?
In a move to unsettle the president and register the protest in what they claim to be majority oppression and disrespect to Minority views, the Minority in Parliament sings the chorus contained in the country’s national anthem- "And help us to resist oppressor's rule"
We inherited a 'broke' economy choked with debt.
But a team of hardworking economists and a prudent management of the economy have led to greater macroeconomic stability
The IMF programme we entered into in 2015 as a result of the bad economic management comes to end this year.
Free SHS
Contrary to the expectation of sceptics and professional naysayers, the free SHS policy has been rolled out. As a result, 90,000 more students gained access to SHS 2017 than in 2016.
Macroeconomic stability
The fiscal deficit has been reduced from 9.6% to 5.6%. The headline-grabbing figures will not solve our problems. For the first time in a long while our macroeconomic figures are solid
The world is taking notice. The World Bank stated our economy could grow by over 8% and could
Bloomberg described Ghana’s stock exchange as the best ahead of the Nigerian, Chinese
For many who think economic figures are boring, they may well be good news.
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