The government’s greatest success story is storytelling

They have been built on at least five important foundations: first, the extraordinary rise in global gold prices; second, the institutionalised consolidation and expansion of the Gold Purchase Programme initiated in response to the 2022 economic crisis; third, the Domestic Debt Exchange Programme (DDEP), especially the enormous sacrifices made by Ghanaian bondholders to make our public debt manageable; fourth, the remarkable fiscal discipline with which government has steered the IMF programme and, fifth, this government’s ability to tell the story in a way that deepens the impression that the previous government left the economy in a mess and this government alone has fixed it.

As for how the Attorney-General reconciles asking the Supreme Court to restore a conviction while his government’s communicators celebrate the judgment that set it aside, perhaps that, too, is simply part of the story.

The bigger story is this: if there is one area in which this government has fundamentally reset the standards of governance, it is public relations.