The economic crisis we all agree has afflicted the country like a disease, can only be addressed with drastic measures. These would not be long in coming and when that time is due, like in a war situation, all bona fide citizens of this country should join the call-up because our country needs us.
Even before the President served notice about the approaching drastic measures, Vice President Mahamudu Bawumia, had in his proposals for addressing the crisis, spoken about the bitter pill response.
The many years of imports of trivialities like toothpicks and others which can be produced locally have conspired to inflict telling effects on the economy.
With the invasion of Ukraine by Russia and its accompanying fallouts and already fragile situation, occasioned by the post COVID-19 effects, an already challenged situation has become worse.
When the President spoke last Sunday, it was a welcome relief as it offered him an opportunity to talk to his compatriots about the realities on the ground.
Let the truth be told, our compatriots. Our over-independence on imports should be reviewed as the President said. This is the only way we can shore up the value of our currency and for that matter, our economy.
This is the truth, the only truth which should be told bereft of the politicised rhetoric some have preferred to do in recent times.
We are in times which can be likened to the COVID-19 days when the President fortnightly or so spoke to us.
As we prepare to go through the regime of drastic treatment of reviewed imports, among others, let us recognise the seriousness of the economic crisis we are in and avoid mischief.
We have already noticed the effects of the social media driven speculations and the mendacious posts on the national currency. Â Those who have the interest of the country at heart should be mindful about the implications of this dangerous pastime by avoiding the mischief which can only damage the standing our national currency further.
The President’s direct speech to traders, whose penchant to increase prices to rake in unusual profits has added to the woes of Ghanaians especially, resonated among the citizenry.
There were people who longed for the days in our history when price control was enforced to thwart the efforts of wicked and ungodly traders.
Much as we do not subscribe to the ‘eye kania, eye hann’ approach to managing prices in the market especially in Accra and Kumasi, the epicenter of the crazy price hikes, we won’t rule out such a consideration by government when the appeal by the President to such persons to be measured falls on deaf years.
Shouldn’t patrons of these items consider boycotting them when the nonsense of killer arbitrary price hikes continues?
They are cheats who engage in such arbitrariness alongside the hoarding of items with a view to making unusual profits without considering the effects such irresponsible conduct visit on the country’s economy and wellbeing.