Presidential Advisor on HIV/AIDs, Dr. Mokowa Blay Adu-Gyamfi has urged Ghanaians to be grateful and happy for the level progress the country has attained.
Dr. Mokowa Adu-Gyamfi said, despite the numerous challenges facing the country, it has made significant progress and bettered the lives of its citizens as compared to many other African countries.
The former Ghana’s High Commissioner to Sierra Leone stated that her stay in the West African country as a diplomat made her realize how a “heaven” Ghana is.
She said, despite Sierra Leone being one of the most beautiful African countries she visited, its citizens are not privileged to have access to most of the social amenities Ghanaians are enjoying and are living in abject poverty compounded by diseases and malnutrition.
She believes, although Ghanaians are going through difficult times, they are better off than their neighbors and should be grateful.
“My stay in Sierra Leone made me appreciate Ghana the most. Because they didn’t have electricity, it rains like mad in Sierra Leone yet we had challenges with water and then there was malnutrition. It was after the war so it (the malnutrition) was to be expected (though). You could see people carrying children on the street who were so malnourished and had HIV.
It was the most beautiful African country I visited but the infrastructure was horrible. But then I managed. I’m like a soldier. If you put me in any situation, I will manage. I came back to Ghana and said Ghana was heaven. Ghanaian, we should be happy and grateful to God for what we have,” she stated.
Her comments come at a time Ghanaians are complaining of hardships as prices of goods and services have skyrocketed in recent times.
Inflation rate in the country hit 19.4 percent in March this year, the highest in 13 years with the International Monetary Fund (IMF) predicting an end-year inflation of 16.3 percent for 2022.
Government and the IMF have attributed the situation to the adverse effects of the Covid-19 pandemic and the ongoing Russia/Ukraine war but the opposition NDC would have none of that.
For them, the situation is due to mismanagement of the country’s economy by government.
