Fixing the Country Movement, a new pressure group, says it is going to embark on a nationwide campaign across the 16 regions to propagate the good works of Akufo-Addo’s administration.
The move, according to the group, followed the demonstration by the #FixTheCountry Campaigners, calling on government to address the many socio-economic challenges facing the country.
Addressing a press conference in Accra yesterday, the Convener of the Movement, Mr Ernest Owusu Bempah described the first term of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo “as one with a resounding success.”
“The movement is very much aware of the considerable gains that the country has chalked under the exemplary leadership of President Akufo-Addo. This attest to the fact that the country is being fixed,” he stated.
He explained that, under the Akufo-Addo led-administration, the economy which hitherto had high inflation, high budget deficit, depreciating cedi and depleting gross international reserves had been totally turned around for the better.
“The microeconomic indices attest to this feat with several indicators showing fantastic results never achieved in Ghana’s history,” he stated.
Touting the achievements of the Akufo-Addo government, Mr Bempah said Nana Akufo-Addo’s resilience in fixing the country had led to the introduction of Free Senior High School (SHS) policy.
He said President Akufo-Addo’s government was the only government since independence that had been able to champion youth-driven policies and programmes in the areas of empowerment, employment, mentorship, training and development.
“The Free SHS, One-District-One-Factory, Digitalisation, Free Technical Vocational Education, Planting for Food and Jobs, Restoration of Allowances for Teachers and Nursing Trainees, Reviving Scholarship Secretariat, the Nations Builders Corps, Youth in Afforestation, NEIP, the Amplified Projects and the Ghana Enterprises Agency are all youth-driven,” he said.
Mr Bempah maintained that, the call to fix the country was a legitimate call, and everybody must appreciate the fact that, President Akufo-Addo was on course in fixing the country’s plight.
“As a country, we must not lose sight of the transformation agenda being rolled out by this president. Indeed, in the year 2020, Ghana came second in attracting Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) in Africa. As a nation, we bagged $2.7billion worth of investment out of which $2.6billion was from FDI.
“The FDIs were realised from 271 registered projects in Ghana and it is envisaged that 27,000 direct jobs were created, according to statistics from the Ghana Investment Promotion Center.
“President Akufo-Addo is supporting Ghanaian workers by throwing a life line to them. The country’s wage bill has more than doubled under the last three (5) years. Which is why the Fixing the Country Movement, is by this statement calling on all right thinking Ghanaians to stand by for our maiden match in support of President Akufo-Addo’s resilience in fixing the country,” he added.
BY VIVIAN ARTHUR
