Kojo Asamoah, a young Ghanaian guy (not his real name), has urged the government to take urgent action in response to requests for the recovery of Ghana’s economy.
Kojo was one among the young men whose livelihoods depended on packing products and performing other menial tasks when shopkeepers at the Makola business shut their doors on October 19, 2022, to demand that the government rescue the depreciating cedi.
He bemoaned the rising cost of necessities in an interview with GhanaWeb’s Stella Dziedzorm Sogli.
He claimed that if the current difficulties persisted, he and his pals would
“We are suffering too much. At Tudu here today, when we come, we get things to do and get some money for upkeep, then we don’t get any ideas to do bad things or indulge in social vices. Now shops have closed, and everybody is lamenting over the increasing economic hardship,” he said.
He added that “We are pleading with the government. What is he doing for us? Because of dollars, we don’t get food to eat. Even pure water is 50pesewas and some of us don’t even have rooms so when we are going to bath it is 2.50pesewas or 3cedis a week. When you calculate it, in a week, where are we going to get that kind of money from? We too are citizens of Ghana. We are pleading with the government to do something about the situation else there will be war.”
The Ghana cedi has depreciated by more than 50% in recent times to currently sell at GH¢16 at some forex bureaus in the country.
Inflation is currently on the rise as prices of goods and services keep shooting up.
Ghanaians have constantly called on government to help resolve the crisis in order to avert any further crisis.