Government says some GHC 2 billion approved for some five local banks is only to support their recapitalization and must not be classified as a bailout arrangement.

In 2016 the Ghanaian people overwhelmingly voted the New Patriotic Party led by Nana Akufo-Addo in an election many analysts believed was going to be tightly contested. The NPP's landslide victory heralded a new sense of hope that governance anchored on integrity was about to be restored, that economic prosperity was on its way with well-paying jobs as by-product of the expected economic boom, that corruption would be fought and the most vulnerable of our society catered for. That no child would