{"id":246529,"date":"2015-01-26T14:23:00","date_gmt":"2015-01-26T14:23:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/gprtu-leadership-sabotaging-mahama-solomon-nkansah\/"},"modified":"2015-01-26T14:23:00","modified_gmt":"2015-01-26T14:23:00","slug":"gprtu-leadership-sabotaging-mahama-solomon-nkansah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/01\/26\/gprtu-leadership-sabotaging-mahama-solomon-nkansah\/","title":{"rendered":"GPRTU leadership sabotaging Mahama \u2013 Solomon Nkansah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Politics of Monday, 26 January 2015<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Starrfmonline.com<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2015\/01\/08ef93800325.jpg\" alt=\"Solomon Nkansah\" title=\"Solomon Nkansah\" width=\"230\" height=\"200\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> The Communications Director of the National Democratic Congress Solomon Nkansah is accusing the leadership of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) of sabotaging the Mahama-led administration.<\/p>\n<p>In his opinion, the Union\u2019s refusal to reduce transport fares drastically after the recent reduction in petroleum prices is part of efforts to make the government unpopular.<\/p>\n<p>He told Accra-based Citi FM most of the leaders of the transport union are known activists of the main opposition New Patriotic Party.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c Their National Chairman, their general secretary and many of their regional chairmen are members of the NPP and for that matter, they allow their partisan considerations into a lot of things.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring former President Kufuor\u2019s regime, the NPP first increased fuel by 64% and the GPRTU was made to increase fares by 15% the following period they increased fuel by 90% the GPRTU was made to increase fuel by 20%,\u201d he alleged.<\/p>\n<p>He wondered: \u201cWhat has changed, Why are they being hostile to this government?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If you take away their partisan considerations and their connivance with the NPP, what else?<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They think reducing the fares drastically will make the Mahama government so popular so they are dragging their feet&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 4 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Politics of Monday, 26 January 2015 Source: Starrfmonline.com The Communications Director of the National Democratic Congress Solomon Nkansah is accusing the leadership of the Ghana Private Road Transport Union (GPRTU) of sabotaging the Mahama-led administration.In his opinion, &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-246529","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246529","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=246529"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/246529\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=246529"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=246529"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=246529"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}