FINANCE COMMITTEE MEMBER CREDIT KUFOUR FOR POVERTY REDUCTION RATINGS

The Deputy Ranking Member on the Finance Committee, Ignatius Baffour Awuah has credited the former President Kufour administration for the reduction of poverty over the last period.
He stated that President Kufour and the NPP strategize good poverty eradication policies to help minimize the rate of poverty especially in the rural and deprived areas.
Ignatius Baffour Awuah explains that the poverty rate in the country as at the time the NPP left office the poverty level was 28 per cent but the figures has increase to 30 per cent.
He blamed the Mills government for the increment stating that there refuse to continue with the poverty reduction policies they inherited.

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