{"id":26766,"date":"2022-10-23T16:42:41","date_gmt":"2022-10-23T16:42:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=26766"},"modified":"2026-07-05T15:38:04","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:38:04","slug":"samini-criticizes-akufo-addo-about-the-tough-circumstances-saying-my-heart-bleeds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2022\/10\/23\/samini-criticizes-akufo-addo-about-the-tough-circumstances-saying-my-heart-bleeds\/","title":{"rendered":"Samini criticizes Akufo-Addo about the tough circumstances, saying, &#8220;My heart bleeds.&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>Famed Ghanaian singer Emmanuel Andrews Samini, known in showbiz as Samini, has criticised President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo over the free fall of the value of the Cedi against the US Dollar,<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">He admitted he supported President Akufo-Addo\u2019s bid to be President but his soul bleeds as investments are being whipped away as a result of the rapid depreciation of the Cedi.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Samini stressed that there cannot be any pretence that all is well with the country as people are crying over the current economic challenges.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cDear @NAkufoAddo.I supported you to bring change and stability.<br>I believed in the vision and your concept of change! But with 2 years to go, my soul bleeds. Our investments wash away daily as the dollar openly whips our Cedi. Your people are crying. We cannot pretend all is well,\u201d he tweeted.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Samini, notwithstanding, is hopeful that Ghana will over the prevailing economic crisis since it blessed with the ability to confront problems headon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">We go keep hope alive and continue to soldier on. What\u2019s a man without hope? We can only continue to pray for a better tomorrow. To all my high graders out there, I say it again ,<br>we will #bealright!!! \ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25\ud83d\udd25<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cBut if God has blessed Ghana with anything, it is our ability to stare difficulty right in the face and say, it will #bealright,\u201d he continued.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Samini concluded by calling on the President, who had begged to given the mandate to govern, to address indiscipline and get Ghana to work again.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cGhana must work again! Where is the Nana Addo who begged us for the mandate?<br>The indiscipline in high and low places of government must be checked,\u201d he appealed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Akufo-Addo, especially during his reelection bid in 2020. He composed songs and accompanied the President on campaign platforms where he extolled his virtues and appealed to the electorate to retain him.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Samini has been a staunch supporter of President Akufo-Addo, especially during his reelection bid in 2020. He composed songs and accompanied the President on campaign platforms where he extolled his virtues and appealed to the electorate to retain him.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Famed Ghanaian singer Emmanuel Andrews Samini, known in showbiz as Samini, has criticised President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo over the free fall of the value of the Cedi against the US Dollar, He admitted he supported President Akufo-Addo\u2019s bid to be President but his soul bleeds as investments are being whipped away as a result [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":26767,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[13052,11935,10387,5059,8440,7730,5195,192,4521,1445,2264,3805,7669,4072,6838,9832,6348,11622,3954,10415,594],"class_list":["post-26766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-akufo","tag-blessed","tag-campaign","tag-cedi","tag-crisis","tag-depreciation","tag-dollar","tag-ghana","tag-ghanaian","tag-god","tag-government","tag-president","tag-president-nana-addo-dankwa-akufo-addo","tag-samini","tag-singer","tag-soldier","tag-us","tag-vision","tag-will","tag-work","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26766","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=26766"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26766\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50713,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26766\/revisions\/50713"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/26767"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}