{"id":19573,"date":"2022-04-04T22:24:36","date_gmt":"2022-04-04T22:24:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=19573"},"modified":"2022-04-04T22:24:36","modified_gmt":"2022-04-04T22:24:36","slug":"covid-era-we-should-have-sacked-15-of-workers-cut-pay-by-25-to-sustain-ghanas-economy-kusi-boafo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/04\/04\/covid-era-we-should-have-sacked-15-of-workers-cut-pay-by-25-to-sustain-ghanas-economy-kusi-boafo\/","title":{"rendered":"COVID Era: We should have sacked 15% of workers &amp; cut pay by 25% to sustain Ghana\u2019s economy \u2013 Kusi Boafo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Chief Executive officer of the Public Sector Reforms, Mr. Kusi Boafo has attributed the current economic hardship to the Covid-19 Pandemic in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Kusi Boafo speaking as a panellist on Amansan Tie with Akuoko Kwarteng divulged that during the peak of Covid-19 in 2020, Government should have sacked 15% of the Government workers as an austerity measure but did not.<\/p>\n<p>He further noted that 25% of workers\u2019 salaries were supposed to be slashed due to the effects of the pandemic but the Government considered the plight of the people.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the Government spent much more during the peak of the pandemic which drained the economy from 2020 leading to the economic hardship that we are witnessing today.<\/p>\n<p>Kusi Boafo invigorated Ghanaians to be much more patient as the government is on course working tirelessly to recover the economy.<\/p>\n<p>source:Kessbenfmonline<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Chief Executive officer of the Public Sector Reforms, Mr. Kusi Boafo has attributed the current economic hardship to the Covid-19 Pandemic in 2020. Kusi Boafo speaking as a panellist on Amansan Tie with Akuoko Kwarteng divulged that during the peak of Covid-19 in 2020, Government should have sacked 15% of the Government workers as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":19574,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[1350,5222,5200,5262,5196,192,12502,2264,10114,5639,5485,11495,7217,10334],"class_list":["post-19573","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-ceo","tag-covid","tag-covid-19","tag-cut","tag-economy","tag-ghana","tag-ghanaians","tag-government","tag-kusi","tag-kyei-boafo","tag-pandemic","tag-reforms","tag-sacked","tag-salaries"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19573","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19573"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19573\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/19574"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19573"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19573"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19573"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}