{"id":262029,"date":"2015-03-12T00:56:00","date_gmt":"2015-03-12T00:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/mahama-is-a-kaskala-president-npp-mp\/"},"modified":"2015-03-12T00:56:00","modified_gmt":"2015-03-12T00:56:00","slug":"mahama-is-a-kaskala-president-npp-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/03\/12\/mahama-is-a-kaskala-president-npp-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama is a \u2018Kaskala\u2019 president \u2013 NPP MP"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Thursday, 12 March 2015<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>tv3network.com<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2015\/03\/592c71064918.295.jpg\" alt=\"John Mahama @ Odwira\" title=\"John Mahama @ Odwira\" width=\"295\" height=\"190\" \/><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p> Member of Parliament (MP) for Wenchi Constituency Professor George Gyan Baffour has described President John Dramani Mahama as a \u2018Kaskala car\u2019 leader, who seems impervious to criticism from the opposition.<\/p>\n<p>According to the New Patriotic Party (NPP) legislator, the president&#8217;s attitude, and by extension that of his appointees, explains why the Minority in Parliament was unusually quiet during the delivery of the State of the Nation&#8217;s address on Thursday, February 26.<\/p>\n<p>Prof. Gyan Baffour made these remarks on Wednesday, March 11 while contributing to the debate on the address.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is Kaskala car! If you buy it after a year [and] you go to stand in front of the car and if you wind it, it doesn\u2019t wind. If you push it, it doesn\u2019t push so the refrain was that: \u2018Wo wind, wind aaa Kaskala.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He, therefore, advised government to rather have a listening ear in order to get help to finding solutions to the economic challenges.<\/p>\n<p>This seems to corroborate President Mahama\u2019s self-description in Botswana on Tuesday that: \u201cI have a dead goat syndrome\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Ghanaians in Gaborone, President Mahama said having witnessed demonstrations and strikes in his first two years in office, he will not be fazed by any similar threats going into the 2016 elections.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is said that when you kill a goat and you frighten it with a knife, it doesn&#8217;t fear the knife because it is dead already.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 6 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> General News of Thursday, 12 &#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-262029","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262029","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=262029"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/262029\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=262029"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=262029"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2015\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=262029"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}