{"id":9327,"date":"2024-12-20T10:12:53","date_gmt":"2024-12-20T10:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=9327"},"modified":"2024-12-20T10:12:56","modified_gmt":"2024-12-20T10:12:56","slug":"canada-is-not-the-only-country-raising-issue-of-payments-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.fishfmonline.com\/?p=9327","title":{"rendered":"Canada is not the only country raising issue of payments \u2013 Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>President-elect John Dramani Mahama has said that he thought it was only local companies that the outgoing Akufo-Addo government owed.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, it has been revealed that international companies are also facing a similar ordeal.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Mr Mahama said this when the Canadian High Commissioner to Ghana, Myriam Montrat, complained over delayed payments to international companies by the current government, during a meeting with President-Elect John Dramani Mahama in Accra on Thursday, December 19.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"ose-youtube ose-uid-c6f82e0b402cb74893c3bf119726fa13 ose-embedpress-responsive\" style=\"width:400px; height:400px; max-height:400px; max-width:100%; display:inline-block;\" data-embed-type=\"Youtube\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowFullScreen=\"true\" width=\"400\" height=\"400\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iYEG0wQWFP8?feature=oembed&color=red&rel=0&controls=1&start=&end=&fs=0&iv_load_policy=0&autoplay=0&mute=0&modestbranding=0&cc_load_policy=1&playsinline=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; encrypted-media;accelerometer;autoplay;clipboard-write;gyroscope;picture-in-picture clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen referrerpolicy=\"origin\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI do think that one of the things that will be helpful in ensuring that companies are being paid on time because that is also another factor that has been a huge deterrent, having to fight to get the money that has been owed,\u201d she stated<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cI didn\u2019t know that extended to international companies, but she gave us a list of American companies that have done work and not been paid. I don\u2019t know if there are Canadian companies but if we get that list we can keep a focus on it and see how [to go about it].\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President-elect John Dramani Mahama has said that he thought it was only local companies that the outgoing Akufo-Addo government owed. However, it has been revealed that international companies are also facing a similar ordeal. 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