Top 6 quotes from Ken Ofori-Atta

alice 14:19 - 03 March 2017

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The Nana Akufo-Addo led administration had the chance to deliver its maiden budget statement on Thursday March 2 2017.

The Nana Akufo-Addo administration had the chance to deliver its maiden budget statement on Thursday March 2 2017.

Here are few notable quotes from the document delivered by Ken Ofori Atta, the soft spoken Minister of finance and Economic planning.

1. Poverty is not natural.

2. We will not pay lip service for fishing corruption.

3. [We are a] nation with a manifestation for greatness, a nation with very high expectations...a nation that is 60 years old [but] remaining the diamond in the rough; and therefore needs more than a shine.

4. It is [in] this providential point in our history, that I have been given this grave but exciting responsibility to participate in sending Ghana beyond aid and to realize our birthright as the Black Star of Africa.

5. We will build a business friendly economy to create jobs, modernize agriculture and a social protection system.

6. There is every reason to be optimistic. Ghanaians are ready and they have a government that is ready.