{"id":274785,"date":"2011-01-24T11:27:45","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T11:27:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/?p=49257"},"modified":"2011-01-24T11:27:45","modified_gmt":"2011-01-24T11:27:45","slug":"nyep-boss-in-trouble-over-chop-chop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/24\/nyep-boss-in-trouble-over-chop-chop\/","title":{"rendered":"NYEP Boss In Trouble Over Chop Chop"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_49258\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-49258\" style=\"width: 250px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-49258\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/01\/24\/nyep-boss-in-trouble-over-chop-chop\/joshua_atta_mensah\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-49258\" title=\"joshua_atta_mensah\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/joshua_atta_mensah.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"250\" height=\"232\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-49258\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Joshua Atta Mensah<\/figcaption><\/figure><br \/>\nTHE Eastern Regional co-ordinator of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP), Joshua Atta Mensah has been accused by his own party people of using his office to amass wealth since he took office 17 months ago.<br \/>\nThe party people, who Mr. Mensah accused of planning to\u00a0 scuttle his parliamentary ambitions, have gone to the extent of posting about 10 allegations of impropriety including an amount of GH\u00a210,000 he had allegedly pocketed from the sale of oil and gas forms and also \u2018chopping\u2019 an amount of GH\u00a25,000 meant for his district co-ordinators when the national co-ordinator inaugurated the \u2018Youth in Mining\u2019 module in the region.<br \/>\nHe was also accused of building a four-bedroom house at Oyoko in the New Juaben municipality after assuming office 17 months ago.<br \/>\nAccording to members of the party, he allegedly took custody of some video cameras meant for beneficiaries of \u2018youth in film industry\u2019 module on the flimsy charges that the beneficiaries refused to take part in the recent photo ID exercise and later lied that the said cameras are with a certain man in Accra.<br \/>\n\u201cHe has taken over the job of the New Juaben municipal co-ordinator as registration forms for applicants were sold at GH\u00a2 30 through one Apasaare,\u201d his own party people alleged.<br \/>\nThe party people also alleged that he has a bought a Honda car and cunningly registered it in the name of a friend.<br \/>\nSome beneficiaries of the NYEP, DAILY GUIDE learnt, have also petitioned the regional headquarters of the party to investigate allegations that the regional co-ordinator took monies before considering them for the NYEP programme.<br \/>\nWhen contacted by the DAILY GUIDE, Joshua Atta Mensah denied all the allegations but confirmed that he was putting up a building at Oyoko and also receiving GH\u00a25,000 from the national office of the NYEP as imprest for the running of the regional office of the NYEP.<br \/>\n\u201cIt is true that I am putting up a building at Oyoko but I did not start the building when I assumed office.<br \/>\nThe building in question is a two-bedroom house and not four-bedroom house as being alleged and I started the building before NDC came into power,\u201d he said, adding that he was a sub-contractor and as such was better-off before the NDC came to power.<br \/>\nHe pointed out that he used his income from his contract to start his building.<br \/>\nAccording to him, when the NDC was in opposition he contested for the New Juaben North NDC parliamentary seat, paid for the nomination fee of GH\u00a21,000 and financed all his campaign activities without the support of the party.<br \/>\nHe told the DAILY GUIDE that when the party was in opposition, he single-handedly defended the party on many radio stations in the Eastern Region and had to travel almost every day to Nkawkaw and Accra to defend that party on \u2018Obuoba\u2019 FM and \u2018Radio Gold\u2019 using his own money for that work.<br \/>\nAccording to him, he knows those people behind the malicious allegations, who according to him, are bent on preventing him from contesting in the party\u2019s primaries in New Juaben but that will never deter him.<br \/>\n\u201cI definitely contest in the primaries in New Juaben and these things cannot intimidate me,\u201d he said.<br \/>\nHe said he had reported the matter to the police and the head of security in the region for them to investigate the allegations and if they happen to be true he was ready to sacrifice his job.<br \/>\n<em><strong>From Thomas Fosu Jnr, Koforidua<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>THE Eastern Regional co-ordinator of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP), Joshua Atta Mensah has been accused by his own party people of using his office to amass wealth since he took office 17 months ago. The party people, who Mr. Mensah accused of planning to\u00a0 scuttle his parliamentary ambitions, have gone to the extent [&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-274785","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>NYEP Boss In Trouble Over Chop Chop - 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\/24\/nyep-boss-in-trouble-over-chop-chop\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"NYEP Boss In Trouble Over Chop Chop - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"THE Eastern Regional co-ordinator of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP), Joshua Atta Mensah has been accused by his own party people of using his office to amass wealth since he took office 17 months ago. The party people, who Mr. Mensah accused of planning to\u00a0 scuttle his parliamentary ambitions, have gone to the extent [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:image\" content=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/joshua_atta_mensah.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@ghanamma\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"3 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/24\/nyep-boss-in-trouble-over-chop-chop\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/24\/nyep-boss-in-trouble-over-chop-chop\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"\",\"@id\":\"\"},\"headline\":\"NYEP Boss In Trouble Over Chop Chop\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-01-24T11:27:45+00:00\",\"mainEntityOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/24\/nyep-boss-in-trouble-over-chop-chop\/\"},\"wordCount\":596,\"commentCount\":0,\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/24\/nyep-boss-in-trouble-over-chop-chop\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/joshua_atta_mensah.jpg\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"CommentAction\",\"name\":\"Comment\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/24\/nyep-boss-in-trouble-over-chop-chop\/#respond\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/24\/nyep-boss-in-trouble-over-chop-chop\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/24\/nyep-boss-in-trouble-over-chop-chop\/\",\"name\":\"NYEP Boss In Trouble Over Chop Chop - Ghanamma.com\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website\"},\"primaryImageOfPage\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/24\/nyep-boss-in-trouble-over-chop-chop\/#primaryimage\"},\"image\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/24\/nyep-boss-in-trouble-over-chop-chop\/#primaryimage\"},\"thumbnailUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/joshua_atta_mensah.jpg\",\"datePublished\":\"2011-01-24T11:27:45+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/24\/nyep-boss-in-trouble-over-chop-chop\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/24\/nyep-boss-in-trouble-over-chop-chop\/#primaryimage\",\"url\":\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/joshua_atta_mensah.jpg\",\"contentUrl\":\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/joshua_atta_mensah.jpg\"},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/\",\"name\":\"Ghanamma.com\",\"description\":\"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":{\"@type\":\"PropertyValueSpecification\",\"valueRequired\":true,\"valueName\":\"search_term_string\"}}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"NYEP Boss In Trouble Over Chop Chop - Ghanamma.com","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/24\/nyep-boss-in-trouble-over-chop-chop\/","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_title":"NYEP Boss In Trouble Over Chop Chop - Ghanamma.com","twitter_description":"THE Eastern Regional co-ordinator of the National Youth Employment Programme (NYEP), Joshua Atta Mensah has been accused by his own party people of using his office to amass wealth since he took office 17 months ago. The party people, who Mr. Mensah accused of planning to\u00a0 scuttle his parliamentary ambitions, have gone to the extent [&hellip;]","twitter_image":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/joshua_atta_mensah.jpg","twitter_creator":"@ghanamma","twitter_site":"@ghanamma","twitter_misc":{"Est. reading time":"3 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"Article","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/24\/nyep-boss-in-trouble-over-chop-chop\/#article","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/24\/nyep-boss-in-trouble-over-chop-chop\/"},"author":{"name":"","@id":""},"headline":"NYEP Boss In Trouble Over Chop Chop","datePublished":"2011-01-24T11:27:45+00:00","mainEntityOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/24\/nyep-boss-in-trouble-over-chop-chop\/"},"wordCount":596,"commentCount":0,"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/24\/nyep-boss-in-trouble-over-chop-chop\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/joshua_atta_mensah.jpg","inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"CommentAction","name":"Comment","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/24\/nyep-boss-in-trouble-over-chop-chop\/#respond"]}]},{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/24\/nyep-boss-in-trouble-over-chop-chop\/","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/24\/nyep-boss-in-trouble-over-chop-chop\/","name":"NYEP Boss In Trouble Over Chop Chop - Ghanamma.com","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website"},"primaryImageOfPage":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/24\/nyep-boss-in-trouble-over-chop-chop\/#primaryimage"},"image":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/24\/nyep-boss-in-trouble-over-chop-chop\/#primaryimage"},"thumbnailUrl":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/joshua_atta_mensah.jpg","datePublished":"2011-01-24T11:27:45+00:00","author":{"@id":""},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/24\/nyep-boss-in-trouble-over-chop-chop\/"]}]},{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/01\/24\/nyep-boss-in-trouble-over-chop-chop\/#primaryimage","url":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/joshua_atta_mensah.jpg","contentUrl":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/01\/joshua_atta_mensah.jpg"},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/","name":"Ghanamma.com","description":"News In Ghana - Latest Ghana News Headlines","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274785","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=274785"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/274785\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=274785"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=274785"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=274785"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}