Presidential meetings critical for appraisal - Mornah

General Secretary of the People’s National Convention (PNC), Mr. Bernard Mornah has lauded President Mahama for convening a meeting to deliberate on matters of the economy and also bring its communicators as well as appointees up to speed.

According to the PNC scribe such meetings bring about some level of consistency and confidence in the information Ghanaians get from government officials.

President John Dramani Mahama within the week summoned Ministers, Deputy Ministers and other senior Government appointees to deliberate on a broad range of issues relating to the economy.

Some key issues touched on included the significant gains made by the Ghana Cedi against the major trading currencies and progress made so far in the negotiations with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) over a new three-year programme.

The meeting agreed that ongoing measures in the form of an aggressive import substitution programme needed to be strengthened to drastically reduce the trade deficit and improve on the balance of payment standing of the country over the medium to long term.

On the IMF programme, the meeting was briefed on progress made so far in the negotiations with the Fund by the Government of Ghana Team. It emerged that the Fund’s views and positions on what needed to be done to inject greater robustness and stability into the macro-economy were in near-perfect alignment with government’s home grown policies.

Speaking to Radio Gold’s Sena Numbo on Alhaji and Alhaji Saturday, the General Secretary said Ghanaians can imagine the state of the economy on their own, but the ultimate truth must come from people in government.

“So if the President organizes this retreat, I think it’s a good thing to have done, so that at the end of the day every member of the government is on the same page…because for those of us who are not in government we have to listen to them to be able to determine whether this is where our economy is or not”, Bernard Mornah said.