President Confers With Religious Bodies, NUGS | Social

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has conferred with representatives of non secular our bodies and the nationwide management of scholars to hunt their inputs into resolving the present financial disaster dealing with the nation.
“Our country is in difficulty, which is economic crisis, and it is necessary for us to find a common way out,” he admitted.

The President, who met the teams individually on the Jubilee House in Accra yesterday, nevertheless, gave an assurance that efforts had been being made by the government to revive normalcy and stability.

He stated the government would additionally defend the inhabitants as a lot as attainable from the opposing headwinds that had been blowing within the nation.

Groups

The teams had been the chief of the National Union of Ghana Students (NUGS) and members of the Christian Council of Ghana, the Catholic Bishops Conference, the Ghana Pentecostal and Charismatic Council, the National Association of Charismatic Churches and the National Muslim Conference.

The engagements had been a part of a sequence of conferences the President has been holding within the final two weeks to discover a lasting answer to the present financial disaster dealing with the nation.

Some of the teams he has already met are the Trades Union Congress (TUC), the Association of Ghana Industries and the Ghana Employers Association.

Responsibility

President Akufo-Addo confused that it was his accountability to implement insurance policies that may reply to the disaster through which the nation discovered itself and, due to this fact, it was crucial that for no matter was to be carried out to hold larger weight with the next probability of success, it should be rooted in a broad consultative course of.

To that finish, he stated, the views of people, in addition to establishments, may very well be factored into no matter was going to be accomplished to make any consequence significant for the nation.

He stated a broad-based enter was wanted as negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) continued, in addition to the processes resulting in the fiscal finances for 2023.

“No matter the nature of the proposals, we can be sure that we are carrying the broad-based support of the country along with us in the measures that have to be taken,” he stated.

“At the end of the day, we have the responsibility of making the policy, but I would like to believe that before the policy is concretised, I have to reach out to a broader and wider section of Ghanaian thinkers and actors as possible, so that I am in a strong position to conclude the policy,” President Akufo-Addo stated.

Economic state of affairs

Highlighting the financial state of affairs in his assembly with the non secular our bodies, President Akufo-Addo stated the state of affairs had, within the final 5 years, been “topsy turvy” when it comes to what had been achieved.

He stated contemplating the issues that had emerged, consultations had been essential to have the ability to discover a coherent method ahead.

“I would like to hear from you also — what your take is on where we are and some of the suggestions you have for the way forward for our country,” he stated.

“Yes, you are Men of God, but I seriously take your place in the body politic of our country because your voices count so much in the deliberations of our nation and so that makes sense with the government, especially one that itself is inspired by the belief in God,” he added.

The President added that the broad engagements had been additionally a method of uniting the nation.