Former Vice President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur has described President Akufo-Addo’s state of the nation address delivered in Parliament Tuesday as one that contained nothing, but a list of problems.
Nana Akufo-Addo in his address cautioned Ghanaians to get ready for tough times as his government works to revive the weak economy he inherited from the previous NDC administration led by former President John Mahama.
He also disclosed that his predecessor had left a heavily indebted power sector which threatens sustainable power supply.
“The attempts by the previous government to resolve the dumsor crisis have led to a gargantuan debt overhang in the sector…we have inherited a heavily indebted energy sector, with the net debt reaching 2.4 billion US dollars as at December 2016.
“I have to point out the alarming fact that 800 million US dollars of this debt is owed to local banks, which threatens their stability. Huge indebtedness of the energy sector constitutes the single major hurdle to Ghanaians enjoying reliable and affordable electricity supply,” the President said.
Reacting to the address Mr. Amissah–Arthur told Starr News the President has a lot to learn, if he is to achieve anything.
“It was quite good and a statement of the problems that the country faced, I’m not sure whether he told us how he was going to solve them because he stated many problems and I don’t get the sense of where the direction he wants to go”.
Source: starrfmonline.com
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I am surprised Paa Kwesi can now talk. You supervised the messing up of this economy as if there was no tomorrow. I am ASHAAMEED of you and would advise you to ***barred word*** your mouth. GOD will one day ask you for this mess. You wife went to the extent of refusing school children in my village chalk to study.
Amissah Arthur, Amissah Arthur, Amissah Arthur, Paa Kwasi Amissah Arthur, Mahama eee bye bye oooo! Onaapo Nana Addo SoNA.
You were the head of the EMT and created all this problem so how will u be able to see the direction of where its going?? U are indeed clueless
LOOK WHO'S TALKING, MR PASSENGER MATE PAA KWASI AMISSA ARTHUR. COULD YOU OPEN THAT YOUR FALLING LIP TO TALK, WHEN YOUR ***barred word*** MASTER WAS ON THE FRONT SEAT? SHAME ON YOU.
Wow! Wow!! There is nobody in the history of Ghana that has been paid for doing nothing apart from Amissah Author. Has he still not realized he was used for votes by the NDC? As the head of the economic team, his intelligence created poverty and he was paid. Did he take ex-gratia too? Oh, Ghana. We pay titles not output. The SONA cannot be 100%, no, but it was far better than most we have read and listened. The man is too wrong i dont know what to say. You owe us for taking salaries, trust me.
where are these hypocrites coming from? look at this man too, none performing asset.
Infact Ewiase bon koon aaba your nw talking first answer Dr Bawumias questions for saying anything about sona
Look who is talking? What did you leave behind for Ghanaians to remember you. A dumb Vice President the worst we have had in Ghana. Na otemu ara kwa.
The problem is Amissah-Arthur knows nothing so to expect him to see something in President Nana Akufo Addo's SONA address is asking for trouble. Indeed, if he had seen anything in the speech on the back of the fact that, Paa Kwesi knows absolutely nothing, zilch, nothing, nada, it would have been a eureka moment, a spectacular discovery in this century. How can somebody who knows nothing see something in what he doesn't know? It is impossible and it is not going to happen. Ignore him!!!
He wanted to say something about what the President said. To say the president said nothing is high insult indeed. The $2b debt at the energy sector is also a lie? Former Deputy Energy Minister confirmed. I now understand why Dr. Bawumia was a thorn in your flesh because you did not have a clue of what was going on in the country. You were asleep because Mahama gave you over doze. Massa, stay at your corner and behold good governance wai.