{"id":272790,"date":"2011-01-05T12:17:40","date_gmt":"2011-01-05T12:17:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=44734"},"modified":"2011-01-05T12:17:40","modified_gmt":"2011-01-05T12:17:40","slug":"mills-reshuffle-is-a-diversionary-tactic-npp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/05\/mills-reshuffle-is-a-diversionary-tactic-npp\/","title":{"rendered":"Mills&#8217; Reshuffle Is A Diversionary Tactic &#8211; NPP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-29920\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2010\/11\/03\/jake-jabs-allotey-jacobs\/jake_obetsebi_lamptey\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-29920\" title=\"jake_obetsebi_lamptey\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/jake_obetsebi_lamptey.jpg\" alt=\"jake_obetsebi_lamptey\" width=\"280\" height=\"258\" \/><\/a>The opposition New Patriotic Party  says President Mills\u2019 latest announcement of changes in his government  is only a \u201cdiversionary tactic\u201d to shift the public\u2019s attention from the  recent increases in the prices of petroleum products.<br \/>\nThe  Party\u2019s General Secretary, Mr. Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, who made the  observation told Citi News that Ghanaians are very bitter and angry  about the latest increases in fuel prices and would not allow the  discussion to go away.<br \/>\n\u201cThe year 2011 did not begin with this  reshuffle but rather the petrol price increase. So if the Government  thought that they can push us away from discussing that by bringing this  sham reshuffle, then they must be joking. Ghanaians are very bitter and  angry about this fuel price increases. So the NDC can wish it away, but  it will never go. We will continuously make the people of this country   aware of the hardship that the year of action promises. Nobody will  discuss this bogus reshuffle\u201d he said.<br \/>\nAccording to Mr. Owusu  Afriyie, popularly called Sir John, the reshuffle was just a rehash of  what he termed \u201cTeam B Ministers\u201d, and that Ghanaians will not waste  precious time in discussing it at the expense of the fuel price  increases which directly affects their lives.<br \/>\n\u201cWe shall not focus  on this reshuffle because it is the same old Team B that has been  reshuffled. It is some of the Team B people who were on the touchline  and had not featured in the first team, that have been brought to play.  Who else is there? Betty Mould Iddrisu who has been a gigantic failure  at the Ministry of Justice has now been sent to Education to further  destroy things there. Zita, who instead of concentrating on Tourism had  to go away to deliver a baby. How can Yileh Kyireh who destroyed the  first Ministry be sent to the Health Ministry to destroy it further? The  whole thing is like an old car that has been repainted. None of them  will even appeal to Rawlings, let alone to the country\u201d he said.<br \/>\nMr.  Sam P. Yalley, a Private Legal Practitioner and a sympathiser of the  NDC vehemently disagreed with Sir John\u2019s comments, declaring him as the  most desperate politician in Ghana currently. He suggested to the NPP to  reshuffle Mr. Owusu Afriyie as its General Secretary.<br \/>\nHe was  particularly furious with Mr. Afriyie\u2019s attack on Zita Okaikoi, the  embattled Tourism Minister. According to him, it was completely  unacceptable for Sir John to have accused Zita of incompetence just  because she travelled abroad to deliver a baby when she was supposed to  be in office.<br \/>\nHe also condemned Mr. Afriyie\u2019s description of the  reshuffle as bogus, saying it was not the NPP\u2019s business to discuss. Mr.  Yalley said the NPP\u2019s attack on government over the fuel price  increases were uncalled for.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The opposition New Patriotic Party says President Mills\u2019 latest announcement of changes in his government is only a \u201cdiversionary tactic\u201d to shift the public\u2019s attention from the recent increases in the prices of petroleum products. The Party\u2019s General Secretary, Mr. Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie, who made the observation told Citi News that Ghanaians are very bitter [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-272790","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Mills&#039; Reshuffle Is A Diversionary Tactic - NPP - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/05\/mills-reshuffle-is-a-diversionary-tactic-npp\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Mills&#039; Reshuffle Is A Diversionary Tactic - NPP - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The opposition New Patriotic Party says President Mills\u2019 latest announcement of changes in his government is only a \u201cdiversionary tactic\u201d to shift the public\u2019s attention from the recent increases in the prices of petroleum products. 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