There Will Be War If Government Does Not Resolve Economic Challenges

Kojo Asamoah, who is not his real name, is a young Ghanaian man who has asked the government to restore Ghana’s economy as soon as possible.

When traders at the Makola shop shut down on October 19, 2022, to demand that the government save the falling cedi, Kojo was one of the young men whose jobs were to pack goods and do other small jobs to make money.

He told GhanaWeb’s Stella Dziedzorm Sogli that he was upset about how much basic things were costing.

He says that if things keep getting worse, he and his friends will leave.

“We are going through too much pain. When we come to Tudu today, we have things to do and get some money for upkeep. This keeps us from thinking about doing bad things or social vices. Now, stores have closed, and everyone is sad about how bad the economy is getting,” he said.

He also said, “We are begging the government to help us. What does he have to do with us? We don’t have food to eat because of money.

Even clean water costs 50 pesewas, and some of us don’t even have rooms, so it costs 2.50 pesewas or 3 cedis a week to take a bath.

When you do the math, where are we going to get that much money in a week? We are also people who live in Ghana. We are begging the government to do something about the situation or there will be war.”

In recent years, the value of the Ghana cedi has dropped by more than 50%, and it now costs 16 Ghana cedis to buy one US dollar.

Prices of goods and services keep going up, which is making inflation go up.

Ghanaians have asked the government over and over to help solve the problem so that it doesn’t happen again.

Written by Ghana Education News Editorial Staff

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