{"id":15572,"date":"2014-07-26T13:11:33","date_gmt":"2014-07-26T13:11:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/ghana-protests-over-high-cost-of-living\/"},"modified":"2014-07-26T13:15:11","modified_gmt":"2014-07-26T13:15:11","slug":"ghana-protests-over-high-cost-of-living","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/new.igihe.com\/english\/ghana-protests-over-high-cost-of-living\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana Protests Over High Cost of Living"},"content":{"rendered":"

{{Thousands of workers across Ghana have taken to the streets to protest about the rise in the cost of living.}}<\/p>\n

The nationwide strike was organised by the country’s largest trade union congress.<\/p>\n

It says the government is mismanaging the economy as inflation is running at close to 15%.<\/p>\n

The protesters called for President John Dramani Mahama to restore the 23% subsidy that has been removed from petroleum products.<\/p>\n

The national currency, the cedi, has depreciated against the US dollar by more than 27% this year.<\/p>\n

In Accra, the protesters, mainly clad in red, chanted, sang, danced and blew vuvuzelas amidst brass band music, for about four hours creating traffic jams in the city centre, he says.<\/p>\n

One of the many hand-written placards they held read: “Somalia’s shilling is doing better than Ghana’s cedi”.<\/p>\n

Leaders of the demonstration presented a four-page petition to Haruna Iddrisu, the minister of employment and labour relations.<\/p>\n

The minister, surrounded by dozens of armed officers, tried to address the crowd which kept shouting and hooting through his address, our correspondent says.<\/p>\n

He eventually found a megaphone to tell them that the government would work “fastidiously to invigorate the economy to make life easier not harder for the working people and citizens of Ghana”.<\/p>\n

“You have made eloquent pronouncement of concerns through this act of demonstration\u2026 the placards you carry reflect a mirror some of your concerns,” he said.<\/p>\n

But Mr Iddrisu said all Ghanaians would have to make “some sacrifices for the economy to recover”.<\/p>\n

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