{"id":24889,"date":"2011-12-31T17:00:54","date_gmt":"2011-12-31T17:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/12\/prez-mills-i-rather-sacrificed-part-of-my-christmas-holidays\/"},"modified":"2011-12-31T17:00:54","modified_gmt":"2011-12-31T17:00:54","slug":"prez-mills-i-rather-sacrificed-part-of-my-christmas-holidays","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/12\/31\/prez-mills-i-rather-sacrificed-part-of-my-christmas-holidays\/","title":{"rendered":"Prez Mills: I Rather Sacrificed Part Of My Christmas Holidays&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/9b0d112426515_169726.jpg\" border=\"1\" class=\"c13\" \/><span>President John Evans Atta Mills arrived this afternoon after a return trip to the US saying he has no regrets for sacrificing his holidays to perform an important task on behalf of the nation.<\/p>\n<p>The president told a section of the media at the Kotoka International Airport that the trip to the US was in the supreme interest of the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c&#8230;I had to take a very important decision. I had a few assignments to undertake in the US. I told myself, why don\u2019t you take advantage of the holidays? Instead of spending your holidays in Ghana, you could kill so many birds with one stone; forgo part of your holidays, go to the US and make the necessary contacts. Which i did&#8230;,\u201d the president explained.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly unperturbed by the various interpretations given to his return trip to the US, President Mills maintained that the trip was a &#8220;sacrifice&#8221; since he had to forego his &#8220;Christmas holidays&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, I rather sacrificed part of my Christmas holidays to perform an important task on behalf of our dear nation and i have no regrets for so doing,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>President Mills also dismissed assertion business transactions could not be held during the Christmas holidays, insisting, \u201cin the US the 26th is not a holiday; it is rather the 25, so I used those days and which everybody will agree that the week beginning the Christmas is very slow in this country not like the US so I was able to accomplish all the assignments that I had in mind,&#8221; he said.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> President John Evans Atta Mills arrived this afternoon after a return trip to the US saying he has no regrets for sacrificing his holidays to perform an important task on behalf of the nation. 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