SONA 2023: Akufo-Addo Lives In A Completely Different World - Isaac Adongo

Member of Parliament for the Bolgatanga Central, Isaac Adongo, says President Akufo-Addo’s State of the Nation Address demonstrated he was completely out of touch with Ghana’s reality. According to him, “I saw a President who is not with us, and I saw a President who lives in a completely different world, and I saw a President who for the first time looked more humbling than I’ve ever seen him address the house because the reality is not looking well and it’s not reflecting well on the government.

“So despite all the flowery language, they knew that it’s the reality that as a country we’re not in the right place and we’re in a very difficult place.” President Akufo-Addo delivered his State of the Nation Address Wednesday, March 8 on the floor of parliament where he addressed chiefly the economic challenges that have afflicted the country post-Covid-19. However, his address has been described by some in the Minority as falsehoods and laughable.

They claim the President’s presentation on the state of the economy; the government’s debt problem as well as the Covid-19 expenditure is a misrepresentation of the true facts on the ground.Sharing his views, Isaac Adongo who is also a Member of parliament’s Finance Committee, stated that the government, and by extension the country, is at its lowest ebb hence the President’s demure demeanor.

“When you manage an economy where the biggest player or stakeholder in dealing with unemployment in providing sustainable jobs, in providing livelihoods is the private sector, and the private sector must go out there and look for opportunities that deliver beyond 40% of margins so it can pay its cost of borrowing in order to stand the chance of managing the business, then you’re in a very difficult place.” he said.

According to him, if the President could have had his way, he would probably have skipped addressing the nation entirely. “So we’re in a place where without mincing words the President would have wished that this conversation was not constitutional but unfortunately it’s obviously something he cannot avoid,” he added.