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@lordcudjoe So literally, without foreign supervision over our economic transformation, we can't sustain economic progress? The IMF was never established to solve Africa's economic problems. It is an extension of neo-colonial control. We can't continue with this circle after 69 years

Hmm thanks to the disciplined oversight provided by the IMF and the commitment of serious economic stewardship, we have achieved outstanding macroeconomic performance. Now, as all major rating agencies affirm our ability to effectively manage the economy and meet debt obligations, returning to the markets to borrow seems like a prudent move. However, I strongly recommend we avoid rushing out of the IMF program, as the previous administration did. Instead, we should consider extending the IMF agreement by at least a year and a half to ensure that our commitments to fiscal prudence are firmly embedded in actions, not just rhetoric. In fact, it would be wise to bolster initiatives like GoldBod to enhance our gold reserves, which can then be strategically sold to boost foreign exchange earnings, which can be borrowed by the government at concessional rates far better than the international markets would give us. Without the IMF’s oversight, I doubt we would maintain the necessary discipline on our own. There are far too many individuals eagerly anticipating our exit from the IMF program, ready to resume spending extravagantly, akin to Arabian princes.

@Prosper_selorm Bawku is not the "north" as a whole,it is a town located within the Upper East Region. The north consists of five regions. Just as you wouldn’t refer to an incident in Nsawam as representative of the entire south, it is not right to generalize insecurity based on a single town.

Do you know how bold and stupid you have to be to engage trained military men in a gun fight? Our Politicians should free the military to ruthlessly deal with the insecurity in the North. We must learn from what is happening in Nigeria

@lordcudjoe We can't ignore oral when we are currently in need of funds for infrastructure development, paying energy sector debt, and investing in agriculture when it is alleged that some $21 billion dollars was misappropriated or stolen

My fiend Nelson Agyeman responding to my ORAL Obituary announcement, sent the message below to me "Let JM do his 2000 km big push, put Ghanaians at the commanding heights of the economy through the 24HE, roll free primary health care, airport expansion and maintain the economic fundamentals and leave out ORAL and Galamsey if he cannot do them because the two require bi partisan and national approach requiring all hands on deck. They are as hard as uprooting prostitution" Do you agree with Nelson?

@lordcudjoe Introducing free primary healthcare while ignoring galamsey is ironic. When our food, water, and soil are contaminated, we fall ill and then rely on free primary healthcare.

@shaiguides Congratulations 👏🎉

After successfully defending my PhD in Economics, I now have 3 Master’s degrees and a PhD. PhD in Economics
MS in Statistics 
MA in Applied Economics
MSc in Information & Telecommunication Systems. Started with a Bachelor’s in Economics. There’s so much to be grateful for❤️👏

The scale of Rwanda's turnaround is legitimately astonishing on the metrics that matter to daily life. Kigali is now widely-acknowledged as one of the cleanest and greenest cities in the world. Believing in democracy doesn't require pretending that voters in every society weigh "competitive theater" the same way. In a place that experienced total societal breakdown, stability and competence can rationally become the dominant electoral signal, especially when the alternative feels riskier. Thread.

History isn't just in books; it’s on stage. Witness the "Golden Edition" of The Slaves: Revisited at the National Theatre on April 25th. Get your tickets at theslavesrevisited.com. 🎟️ #TheSlaves #slavesrevisited #Theatre

Over the past few weeks, many Africans got to hear about the Strait of Hormuz for the first time ever. What caused this huge information gap? A story about how Africans are educated into complete ignorance about their own reality by @joyfwen

Eid Mubarak! We wish you all a very happy and peaceful Eid.

@ArhinAkwasi @Adu_parkoh1 @barkervogues Abi the supporters going to 'shi the jama' do not have any work to do and are unambitious.

@AbdulAz51114522 @Adu_parkoh1 @barkervogues The Ghanaians from the diaspora who went there to work and chase their dreams do not owe the blackstars consistent support. They have other business to attend to.

I watched and read with dismay the statements made by the Sports Minister that government will be funding not more than 800 supporters at a cost of 9,250 dollars per head to go to America and watch the black stars. That’s just for the group stage. For the love of God, if Government allows this to go through, I will lose all trust in the NDC’s wisdom and commitment to improving this country. President John Dramani Mahama established the Ghana Medical Trust - MahamaCare. A laudable initiative. I have seen them going all around sourcing donations to the Trust, so that critical health challenges Ghanaians face will be addressed. In fact, my law firm was considering making a small donation of 5000 cedis to support the initiative. To learn that Government plans to spend 7.4 million US dollars for people to go and “shee jama” at the World Cup is so unconscionable and incredibly insensitive that I cannot mince words about it. This must be stopped! They must donate that money to MahamaCare. Please for the love of God make this make sense. Have we learnt nothing since Brazil? And. No, we won’t be donating anything MahamaCare till this ridiculous idea is dropped. Mtcheew. Be like we no be serious people like that. Shalom

@ArhinAkwasi @Adu_parkoh1 @barkervogues You seem to be mixing issues. We are not forfeiting the World Cup. Ghanaians within the USA alone can give us enough support. The Ghanaian diaspora community is also big. The Black Stars are not going to bring anything meaningful home so such investment is not worth it.

@Adu_parkoh1 @barkervogues My point is that something better can come from the World Cup. International recognition can bring sponsorship deals to the citizens in Ghana. Because we need several basic amenities, it doesn't mean we should shun other sectors. That's why we have budget allocation.

@JustNanaAma Existing literature by African academics already affirms that. However, acknowledging the complicity of some selected few does not justify the institutionalisation, cruelty, abuse and current unjust world order by the slave masters who even received compensation after the aboliti

It shouldn’t be hard to acknowledge the role of African collaborators in the slave trade without losing sight of the fact that the architects and primary beneficiaries were not African. As Africans, this shouldn’t be this hard for us.

Repost the Quran. Your hands will testify for you on judgment day…. A beautiful recitation ❤️

Why complain about the media when you can use the medium to inform. See my article on Ghana’s Resolution pending before the UN General Assembly, and the depth of our silence. “I challenge you. Watch what happens whenever slavery and reparations come up in our public discourse, even among educated Ghanaians, even among people who should know better. Within minutes, someone will say: “But Africans sold Africans.” It lands like a checkmate, and the conversation collapses into a binary: either you acknowledge African complicity and therefore the whole reparations argument falls apart, or you are seen as naive, romantic, an apologist for victimhood politics. There is no third space. No sophistication. No ability to hold two truths at the same time. But if the historians can, then the legal scholars must. And surely our society must be taught to. Any serious student of this period can tell you that African complicity in the slave trade is real, documented, and must be reckoned with honestly. And that none of it neutralises the case for reparations, because the reparations argument rests on the scale, the industrial character, the racialised permanence, and the multigenerational economic architecture of transatlantic slavery, not on a simple moral ledger that none of it neutralises the case for reparations, because the reparations argument rests on the scale, the industrial character, the racialised permanence, and the multigenerational economic architecture of transatlantic slavery, not on a simple moral ledger of who did what to whom. These are not competing facts. They live in the same sentence. The reason we cannot hold that complexity is that we were never given the tools to do so. Our educational system did not teach us to. It still does not.” myjoyonline.com/ghanas-histori…

@kobbyschram @barkervogues It is important to recognize that the former slave owners have been trying to erase history and flip the narrative. Reparations are not only about money nor acknowledgement, but an effort to change the current unfair financial order and UN composition.

@barkervogues what kind of reparations are we looking for? Financial, acknowledgement, apology? Honestly, I have never paid attention to the convo of reparations. It always seems to me that we bring it up when we want something , which makes it look like just another avenue for begging

@KojoKeelson @barkervogues Reparations are not only about payments or money. It is part of a larger plan towards the restructure of the current world order that works against Africa.

@barkervogues The US and Western Europe are never gonna pay for reparations. And even if they are gonna pay, how much is it gonna be. A trillion dollars, maybe. And who is gonna get the larger chunk of it. Africans in the continent or the direct descendents of the enslaved Africans

Update 2 1. Cyprus has spoken, but said nothing about the Resolution. 2. Russia has called out Western Nations for not paying reparations for Genocides in Africa. Russia expresses support for Reparations, and proposes to work with Africa to achieve this. Russia has expressed absolute support for the Resolution. 3. Equitorial Guinea has congratulated Ghana; salutes John Mahama, and expresses support for the Resolution. 4. Vietnam - quotes Kofi Annan; and expresses support for continuing to memorialise the slave trade. But say nothing directly about the Resolution 5. Venezuela - A co-sponsor of the Resolution, welcomes President Mahama to the UN, congratulates Ghana, and invites all delegations to vote in favour of it. 6. France - calls for a UN convention [instead] but says nothing about Resolution. 7. Ethiopia - Aligns with Statement of Ghana on behalf of Africa Group and supports Resolution 8. Guinea - Aligns with Statement of Ghana on behalf of Africa Group, Congratulates Ghana and supports Resolution 9. Colombia - Expresses support for Resolution 10. Haiti - Subscribes to the Declaration of Ghana - “There are silences which cross centuries - Haiti speaks today for all those history has silenced, so that they may never be forgotten”.

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A second cycle school, Dabokpa Technical Inst. in the Northern Region is doing something amazing. Building tractors, tricycles, incubators, etc. I believe they require some serious collaboration with industry. Let's encourage them. Repost this till they get the needed attention.

@kwabenaabeam1 @_edemkojo @CallmeAlfredo @Cassielforson @mytheoz The gov't has to attract private sector investment and improve our tax collection by checking the leakages especially at institutions like GRA, Harbour etc. Property tax collection should be introduced and enforced. The finance minister can share the full data for thorough assess

@_edemkojo @CallmeAlfredo @Cassielforson @mytheoz I hope @Cassielforson is seeing this. Open your hands and give clearance for citizens to be employed. Want more revenue, tax the "informal sector" too. Make districts issue licenses to masons, plumbers, carpenters, tailors and the lots and tax them.. let's start from somewhere

Yesterday, Finance Minister @Cassielforson disclosed government last year spent ~44% of its tax revenue on the wage bill (compensation) far above the West African benchmark of 35%. This disclosure has sparked a conversation on whether government has really stuck to its promise of fiscal discipline. Well ironically, this ~44% wage to revenue ratio ranks lowest in years. I tell the full story in the dashboard below.

@kwabenaabeam1 @_edemkojo @CallmeAlfredo @Cassielforson @mytheoz From the graph, the government borrows to foot part of the wage bill. Ideally,our wage bill shouldn't be above 35% of our revenue but it is at 44%. The govt needs to bring our wage/tax down to 35% or less.