Political strategist and analyst Michael Ebo Amoah has opined that the State of the Nation Address delivered by President Akufo-Addo on Wednesday, March 8, 2023, was from his point of view and what his handlers wrote for him.
He claimed that the president’s speech did not accurately reflect the state of the country and was intended to absolve him of responsibility for the current challenges confronting Ghanaians.
Mr. Amoah told Kwabena Agyapong on Rainbow Radio 87.5Fm’s Frontline that the president’s address was intended to perfect Ken Ofori-Atta, the Finance Minister.
He said the address by the president painted the minister as someone he still trusts and not prepared to sack him as suggested by some of the MPs on the side of the Majority Caucus.
He stated that the handlers would not always present him with the true state of the country.
”Everything the president had said or said yesterday is the total reflection of what the advisors had told him. So genuinely, it may not reflect the actual reality on the ground. He did not want to paint his government black.”
He delivered the SONA yesterday, but Ghanaians will decide whether it reflects the true state of the country one day.
He stated that the Auditor-report General’s contradicted the president’s claims about Covid-19 expenditures.
He noted that the report captured bloated expenditure, misapplication, misappropriation and ”so for the president to have said that nothing happened was unfortunate and meant to defend himself at all cost”.
He added that although we cannot rule out the impact of Covid-19 and the Russian-Ukraine war on the economy, one would ask what the government did with the monies we got post-Covid.
”We have complained about the bloated government. We have demanded that the government stops reckless spending. But they have not done these things.”
”The President wanted to justify that Ofori-Atta is doing well and that it was not his fault that Ghana is in an economic mess.”
By: Rainbowradioonline.com/Ghana
