Businessman and politician Kennedy Agyapong has pushed back against claims that recent gains by the Ghanaian cedi are the result of local government policy, insisting instead that external global factors - particularly U.S.

politics - are driving the development.

Speaking at a recent public event, Agyapong dismissed local economic credit-taking, asserting that the depreciation of the U.S.

dollar and the cedi's relative appreciation stem from broader shifts in global demand, especially due to former U.S.