{"id":273062,"date":"2011-01-07T14:29:08","date_gmt":"2011-01-07T14:29:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=45357"},"modified":"2011-01-07T14:29:08","modified_gmt":"2011-01-07T14:29:08","slug":"ministers-barred-from-presidents-encounter-with-media-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/07\/ministers-barred-from-presidents-encounter-with-media-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministers barred from President\u2019s encounter with media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ministers of State would not be present when the President, John Evans  Atta Mills, meets the cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me of the media on Friday morning  at the castle.<br \/>\nUsually, during such encounters, the president is  flanked by these lieutenants \u2013 ministers &#8211; to help provide answers to  some challenging questions emanating from the media personnel.<br \/>\nAccording  to the Communications Director at the Presidency, Koku Anyidoho, the  ministers \u201care not expected to be there\u201d in yet a  purely media affair.<br \/>\nPerhaps  the decision was prompted by the fact that during last year\u2019s event,  even though the ministers were present, the President did not make use  of them as he stood for hours to whether all the stormy questions from  the press.<br \/>\n\u201cA directive has gone out to ministers to stay at post  and concentrate on what they have to do in their ministries,\u201d Mr  Anyidoho told Joy News&#8217; Dzifa Bampoh Thursday evening.<br \/>\nThe  president, he noted, would first make some preliminary comments and the  floor would then be given to the media to bombard him with myriad of  questions.<br \/>\n\u201cAsk as many as you want within the time that we have  \u2026[but]\u2026 Ask a solid question and allow your brother or sister to ask a  question,\u201d he pointed out.<br \/>\nAbout 70 media operators, media  owners, broadcast and print journalists, and show hosts and producers  among other media practitioners have confirmed their participation.<br \/>\nMeanwhile, the largest opposition party, New Patriotic Party, has put out <a href=\"http:\/\/news.myjoyonline.com\/politics\/201101\/58877.asp\" target=\"\u201cnew\u201d\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">24 questions<\/a> expecting the media to put across to the president for answers. The  questions, its General Secretary Kwodwo Owusu Afriyie said, are  summaries of questions which have inundated the party\u2019s office, which  the people wish to ask the president.<br \/>\nSome season journalists have also shared their thoughts on some questions they would want answers from the president.<br \/>\nThe  meeting which coincides with the president&#8217;s two years in office is to  afford media practitioners an opportunity to pick the thoughts of  President Mills on thorny national issues.<br \/>\nStory by Isaac Essel<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ministers of State would not be present when the President, John Evans Atta Mills, meets the cr\u00e8me de la cr\u00e8me of the media on Friday morning at the castle. 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