Be patient - Akufo-Addo to Ghanaians - Adomonline.com

This was when he addressed a delegation of paramount chiefs from the Western Region during a courtesy call on him at the Jubilee House yesterday.

Apart from that, he said “there will be some temporal delays [with ongoing capital projects] while we negotiate with the IMF, which is what we are experiencing now.”

Furthermore, he indicated that capital projects which were ongoing in the country would not stall when government finally secures the IMF Programme, whilst admitting that some of the ongoing projects were currently experiencing some form of funding delays largely due to the current economic situation and the ongoing negotiations.

That notwithstanding, he said those negotiating on behalf of the country at the table with the IMF team were ensuring that all capital projects that government had embarked on in the last six years and yet to complete, would fully be executed.

On the issue of the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP), Omanhen Awulae Agyefi Kwame II, noted that the chiefs of Western Region endorsed the steps being taken by the Akufo-Addo administration to restructure the country’s debt.

However, they were of the considered opinion that very little was being done by way of public education, particularly in the Western Region, for the citizenry to understand and appreciate the agenda of government as far as the DDEP was concerned.

He, therefore, urged the President to as a matter of priority, deploy technocrats to the Western Region and the rest of the country, to educate the citizenry on the programme and the benefits that would accrue to the economy should the programme be eventually endorsed by the IMF board.