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Electing Bawumia means the Agyapadie Document will be implemented fully – Attah Issah

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The NDC parliamentary candidate for Sagnarigu in the Northern Region, Attah Issah, has urged Ghanaians not to take Vice President and flag bearer of the NPP, Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, seriously, stressing that his election will be a third term of the Akufo-Addo regime.

He said Bawumia, an protege of Akufo-Addo, will be controlled by a cabal in Akufo-Addo’s family who have been milking the state dry since NPP assumed office.

Speaking on the Gumbe Show on TV XYZ, Issah criticised the Akufo-Addo government for  what he terms as a bad leadership that has the tendency to capture the seat of the government at all cost and added that Bawumia’s election will mean the state capture will continue.

His comment was in relation to circulating document authored by the family of  the Ofori Atta’s who are Akufo-Addo’s family members to strategise clandestinely to release key resources including the nation’s mineral proceeds to key persons within the Kyebi fraternity whose membership now hold the fort of the presidency and key ministries in government.

A portion of this restricted document titled Agyapadie to wit valuable property of inheritance reads, “The NPP’s agenda for political dominance will hinge on our financial might.”

With Nana in total control of the whole entity of Ghana; when we have finally captured the command and control sectors of our country for our private use, we will then be in the proper stead to wield the political and economic power to control the destiny of this country under Oforipanin.”

Attah Issah believes the strategies in the document are happening as predicted, adding that when Ghanaians vote for Bawumia, it will mean that the authors of the Agyapadie document, who are his financiers, will force him to implement fully the strategies in the book.

 

Source: Myxyzonline.com

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High cost of local production fuelling Ghanaians’ taste for foreign products – Attah Issah

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Financial analyst and politician Attah Issah has blamed Ghana’s swelling import drive on the inability of the government to help businesses minimise cost of local production.

The Parliamentary candidate for the opposition NDC in Sagnarigu said the cost of doing business in Ghana has gone off the roof in than past year, making local products more expensive to the average Ghanaian who struggles to find a financial balance due to the harsh economic conditions.

To him, it is the reason the taste for foreign products has heightened among Ghanaians in the past few years, making it difficult for the government to control inflation.

Speaking in an interview on TV XYZ, Issah who is an entrepreneur bemoaned the tax components on the prices of locally made products, stressing that the west does not improve economies through imposing such nuisance taxes but rather create enabling environment for businesses to be more efficient and export more products.

“Ghana has acquired foreign taste due to [the] cost of doing business in Ghana,” he stated and explained that there is a demand for sanitary pads in the country but the locally ones are expensive due to the high cost of producing the pads.

“Because of government policies abroad, they are able to produce more at a lower cost so when their products come here you see that their prices are lower… so we have gradually acquired foreign taste.”

He said the situation also makes products made in Ghana very expensive on the international market hence hampering the country’s export drive.

He urged government to bridge the gap between the products being consumed in the country and what the country produces for the people. He wants the government to focus on agriculture and adding value to raw materials in the country.

“You need to prioritise areas that you think you have competitive advantage in,” he urged while pointing that the local production of cocoa, rice and sugar will help sustain the economy through foreign exchange.

To him, high interest rates were also hampering local production especially when private sector industry players lack access to credit to thrive and contribute to the growth of the country’s GDP.

Despite all the investments the NPP government brags of, Atta Issah believes the government did not channel the resources to the right sectors such as the private sector.

He also bemoaned that tax incentives were not given to the right companies, adding that a wanton amount of GHS 47 billion to “selected foreign companies” to the detriment of local firms.

Expressing disappointment in the Akufo-Addo government, Issah urged Ghanaians to believe in the flag bearer of the NDC, former President John Mahama, who has promised to tap into the human capital of the country through the implementation of a 24-hour economy to revive the country’s finaces.

“Tax exemptions shall be well targeted by the 24hr economy under Mahama,” he added.

NDC’s Approach to 24-hr economy

The 24-hour economy policy will be a major boost for the next NDC administration’s import substitution and export drive under John Mahama.

A Mahama government will leverage it to stabilize the national currency, improve Ghana’s reserves, bring down inflation and interest rates, create more employment opportunities and improve livelihoods.

Mahama has pledged that his government will create an enabling environment for businesses and companies to operate 24/7 by providing an atmosphere of improved security and public safety.

He pledges that his government will provide cheaper and reliable electricity for participating businesses based on a Time Of Use (TOU) tariff system.

Mahama has also promised Companies that sign unto the 24-hour economy policy modern smart meters which will be calibrated to charge a lesser tariff (per KW/h) for power consumed during off-peak hours.

Tax Incentives will also be given businesses that subscribe to the 24-hour Economy policy to reduce the cost of their operations and enhance their competitiveness.

The NDC government pledges to provide financing support  for certain strategic agro-processing factories and manufacturing companies to boost production for import substitution and exports.

 

By Henryson Okrah |Myxyzonline.com

 

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Mahama’s 24-hr economy will be a game changer in Sagnarigu – Attah Issah

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The NDC Parliamentary candidate for Sagnarigu, Mr Attah Issah, has blamed the heightening unemployment in the country on the incompetence of the Akufo-Addo government.

The financial analyst who was speaking in an interview on TV XYZ noted that, the government’s ‘One District One Factory’ policy was implemented poorly, leaving many districts without industries to help add value to their common raw materials in the country.

Mr Issah said as a result of the government’s failure to fulfill that industrialization drive promise, unemployment rate has skyrocketed in the past seven years under the NPP administration.

For instance, he indicated that his constituency–Sagnarigu– in Tamale cannot boast of any factory to add value to the raw materials being harvested in the area.

“This government hasn’t created anything in my constituency that will recruit people,” he lamented.

Attah Issah made this observation while commenting on the feasibility of a pledge by the NDC’s flag bearer, Mr John Mahama, to revive the country’s ailing financial architecture through a 24-hour way of doing business.

Describing it as a game changer that will thrive on industrialization, Attah Issah stated that the policy will create sustainable jobs in Sagnarigu for the people.

“This policy will be a stimulus package , that will invite businesses to sign up to.
Security will be available and then citizens will get jobs . We won’t have graduate unemployment in the third quarter alone to be 25%.”

“In my constituency,  fortunately, we are a farming community. Look, the value chain is a problem; we are harvesting currently….I am a farmer. I just finished harvesting my maize. Now, when the maize is harvested, we bring it straight to Accra raw. You know our tax regime; location is also influencing your tax percentage, so when there is an incentive for somebody to process maize into something and they set it up in my constituency, I have a lot of graduate unemployed people who will take advantage of it,” Attah Issah noted.

Adding weight to the policy, he explained that his constituency is “just like an outlier” stressing that “we stand to benefit immensely from” the policy under the next John Dramani Mahama government.

 

Source: Myxyzonline.com