The Upper East Regional Communication Director of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP) Peter Ayinbisa has claimed, that the NPP’s least GDP growth in the last 5 years has performed better than that of the NDC. Apexnewsgh.com report
The Regional Communication Director made the claim on Apexnewsgh.com flagship program dubbed “SPEAK OUT UPPER EAST” on Wednesday, September 06, 2022
Mr. Ayinbisa said, when the NPP came to power in 2016, they inherited a certain economy and later moved from there to a certain level before COVID came.
“In 2016, we have to look at the various indicators that show an economy is healthy and doing well. Am talking about the GDP growth rate, am talking about the inflation, am talking about the interest rate, and am talking about employment”.
He said: “If you look at GDP, you would ask yourself is what did the NPP came to meet in 2017. What was the GDP growth rate in 2016? What has the NDC left for us in 2016?
According to him, “It is based on the robustness and healthiness of the economy that everything can triumph from there.
Explaining the economy the NPP inherited from the opposition NDC, the Upper East Regional Communication Director of the governing party pointed out: “In 2016 when we came the NDC had a GDP rate of 4.6 percent. So, in 2017 we moved the GDP rate from there to a higher percentage, in 2018 we move it to over 8 percent and in 2019 we came back to 6.5 percent and in 2020 it came down. And am saying this to show that even our least GDP growth between the last 4 to 5 is better than that of the NDC”. He stressed
However, he strongly believes the Bawumia-Akufo-Addo administration wants to maintain a strong economy that will reflect in the living standard of ordinary Ghanaians.
“We want to maintain a very strong economy, that is why when they left it at 4.6 percent, we increased it in 2017 to 8.1 percent, in 2018 it came down to 6.2 percent, in 2019 it went up again to 6.5 percent.
He said, these are the indicators to show that a certain economy is doing well and has the capacity to contain the growth of the country, and for that matter to ensure that the people living in that economy are going about their work, and their cost of living is maintained and they are able to purchase basic things in the economy”.
Source: Apexnewsgh.com|Ghana
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