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Minister of Information, Kojo Oppong Nkrumah has welcomed the ongoing "fix the country" campaign by some youth in the country over the performance of President Nana Akufo-Addo's administration.

"Fix the country" campaign is directed at the President to awaken him to the pertinent concerns raised by the agitated youth.

They complain about the President's poor governance stressing there is a high cost of living under the current regime.

Speaking in an interview with Peacefmonline.com at the Ministry of Information in Accra, the Minister noted that the youth's concerns are legitimate but it calls for a collective responsibility to resolve them.

He stated that the grievances shared by the youth are not about the Akufo-Addo government but rather a desire "we all share as a people".

"The first thing they talk about is that they have challenges with broken promises or unfulfilled promises from successive governments and I'm saying to you that that is not about Akufo-Addo's administration. The second thing that they talk about is that they have a desire to see some things quickly resolved and I think that that is a desire that we all share as a people. And if we will just go back a bit, the administration has actually been outlining and forecasting that these are the challenges ahead of us and this is how we have to deal with these challenges," he stated.

Some critics believe the delay in the formation of the President's administration is partly responsible for what they say is Ghana's economic downturn, which has ignited the ''fix the country'' campaign.

But to Hon. Kojo Oppong Nkrumah, that's far from the truth and reality.

" . . I don't come into the view that it is a delay in formation of government that is what has translated into this.''

He believed the campaign is a good opening for a national discourse and consensus on the collective role of every person to the development of the country.

"I come to the view that, some of these, indeed a good number of these are very legitimate concerns that both government and the people should engage in a conversation on on everybody's responsibility in fixing or in dealing with and I think that that has started in a very healthy manner," he stressed.