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President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo has once again backed his Ministers' performance saying he will only reshuffle when he's sure they are "underperforming".

There have been a lot of calls for the President to reshuffle his appointees especially Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta; but he has insisted there's no need for a shakeup.

The President who is on a two-day tour of the Central Region said, “It is not that I am not listening to what people are saying. Public opinion is very important in our democracy but at the end of the day, I must make the judgement on whether some people should go”.

“This same Finance Minister people are calling for his head today is the very man who took us out of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) programme very successfully and helped us produce the 7.5 percent growth rate that we had before the COVID. People have forgotten that today because of the difficulty that we are having."

“ . . he is the same figure, he hasn’t changed and I believe that he has the same determination to work to bring us out of this present state as he showed at the beginning of our government,” he stated.

President Akufo-Addo on Friday, cut the sod at Papaase for the construction of a 16-kilometre Kasoa-Bawjiase road, estimated to cost GHC 93.9 million and is expected to be completed in 2024.

He also unveiled a Gas Cylinder factory in Chochoe, and a Lubricant factory in the Gomoa East District at Fetteh, both under 1D1F and inspected the Agenda 111 project in Gomoa Afransi in the Gomoa Central constituency.