News:
November 20, 2017
Minister of State in charge of Monitoring and Evaluation, Dr Anthony Akoto Osei has revealed that the first assessment of President Nana Akufo-Addo’s Ministers will be made public before the end of January next year.
He further revealed the first assessment of Ministers has been presented to Cabinet, two Cabinet meetings ago, but fell short for revealing areas that were covered and said it is an internal matter but gave assurance of the public getting to know of what is contained in the assessment next year.And added in an interview that he expect criticism, “that is the nature of our job” and further said as a member of the economic management team, he is happy with what has been done so far relating to the Ghanaian economy, “itis good”.
“Given the circumstance we found ourselves, we have done well by bringing the deficit down; next year will consolidate on work we had done not as fast. So that our flagship programme will continue to be addressed, I am comfortable with what we have done in the economic arena”, he said.
According to the Old Tafo legislator, the ruling New Patriotic Party (NPP) government never said it will not borrow, let us speak to facts he said and let us stop this “populism government never said it will scrap the energy sector levy”.
Dr. Akoto Osei noted that government has managed the energy sector levy better, to prevent the accumulation from going up and added that things are being put in place in the budget to stop the “bleeding”, not only with the levy but other to stop the center from continuing to bleed.
By: Kwaku Sakyi-Danso/ghanamps.com