{"id":493820,"date":"2026-02-27T15:06:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:06:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/493820\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T15:06:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T15:06:08","slug":"give-to-bawumia-what-belongs-to-him-afenyo-markin-credits-former-veep-for-gold-for-reserve-policy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/493820\/","title":{"rendered":"Give to Bawumia what belongs to him &#8211; Afenyo-Markin credits former Veep for Gold-for-Reserve Policy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Minority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin has insisted that former Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia deserves credit for the Gold-for-Reserve policy now being implemented by the Mahama administration.<\/p>\n<p>While responding to the President&#8217;s address on Friday, Afenyo-Markin acknowledged that some economic gains had been made, particularly through the policy. <\/p>\n<p>However, he was quick to attribute the intellectual property of the initiative to his predecessor.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The president is telling us today that some gains have been made&#8230; through this Gold-For-Reserve policy,&#8221; Afenyo-Markin noted.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/JDM_SONA_2026_top.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-10032989088\"\/><\/p>\n<p>He then pivoted to what he saw as a critical omission in the narrative surrounding the policy&#8217;s origins. &#8220;Mr. Speaker, the Gold-For-Reserve policy what they have failed to tell Ghanaians is that the Bawumia that they attacked is the brainchild of this policy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Drawing on a local proverb to drive home his point, the Minority Leader urged the government to acknowledge the contributions of political opponents when they are valid.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Mr. Speaker, I would want to urge the government give to Bawumia what belongs to Bawumia.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>DISCLAIMER: The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n<p>DISCLAIMER: The Views, Comments, Opinions, Contributions and Statements made by Readers and Contributors on this platform do not necessarily represent the views or policy of Multimedia Group Limited.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Minority Leader, Alexander Afenyo-Markin has insisted that former Vice President Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia deserves credit for the Gold-for-Reserve&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[28,101],"class_list":["post-493820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-economy","tag-business","tag-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}