President John Dramani Mahama is confident the promise made on January 7, 2025 to reset Ghana is on course.
For him, a nation in distress, an economy on its knees with unemployment crushing the youth and infrastructure crumbling as well as an erosion of public trust were what he inherited.
“At the dawn of the New Year, I stand before you to say that our beloved nation Ghana is rising again,” President Mahama stated in his New Year address on Thursday, January 1.
“We’ve accomplished a lot together in the past 12 months,” he added, citing the fall in inflation from around 23 percent at the end of 2024 to just above 5 percent as one of the indicators of the successes chalked.
“We have achieved relative currency stability and on track to be ranked among the best-performing currencies in the world for 2025.”
He said the process of exiting the International Monetary Fund (IMF) extended credit facility programme “with dignity, not as supplicants but as partners” has begun.
Already, President Mahama stressed, the international image of Ghana has been boosted by the world-acclaimed ‘Reset’ agenda.
“This ‘Reset’ involves a new way of looking at things both domestically and globally.
“Domestically, our ‘Reset’ agenda is seeing a resurgence of faith in our democracy. It is delivering a leaner and a more efficient administration.
“It is yielding greater accountability in government and a re-energised fight against corruption.”
He noted how he shared the Accra Reset initiative to the global world during the 80th UN Session.
For 2026, President Mahama succinctly stated: “We shall accelerate and expand.”