The Minster for Information, Kojo Oppong-Nkrumah says the focus of government after the 2020 elections is to stimulate the recovery of the economy from the shocks of COVID-19.
To this end, Mr. Oppong-Nkrumah stated that government is making efforts to put the economy back on its feet for accelerated development.
He therefore, called on the media to partner with the government to bring back the economy on track.
“We need to let everybody understand what the focus of government is at this point because it takes a strong robust economy foundation before you can birth all the things we are talking about; we want to build schools, roads, one district one factory and we want to recruit more people”. He made these remarks when he addressed the media during his duty tour to the Central and Western Regions.
According to him, government’s target was to vaccinate 20 million Ghanaians before the end of 2021.
So far, government has vaccinated a little over one million people and is optimistic that this ambitious target will be achieved.
“To help us do that we are buying some and receiving some in grants and we are looking to manufacture vaccines here in Ghana. As I speak to you, the president’s vaccines committee is in Netherlands and other European countries building the necessary networks and partnerships that they need so that they can come back home quickly for us to start doing this.”
The Information Minister further pointed out that government is seeking to inject 100 billion Ghana Cedis in the Ghanaian economy under the Ghana Cares Obatanpa programme with 70 billion from the private sector and 30 billion through government’s treasury.
This intervention the Information Minister noted is to accelerate the growth of the economy, create employment and also undertake development projects in the country.
On the security in the sub-region, he indicated that terrorism is on the rise and it is time the general public is made aware of its devastating effects.
“…if you look to countries as close as Burkina Faso, terrorism is heating up and if you add that to the security challenges in the gulf of guinea, we are in times where the general public has to be brought to a high level of consciousness about our security”
He therefore called on Ghanaians to be aware about their security and also appealed to the youth to desist from groups with strange doctrines.
Source: Louis Mensah/Kofi Konadu/ATLFMNEWS
