{"id":446972,"date":"2017-12-14T09:11:04","date_gmt":"2017-12-14T09:11:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/12\/14\/npp-government-now-a-scarecrow-hounding-out-state-officials-baba-jamal\/"},"modified":"2017-12-14T09:11:04","modified_gmt":"2017-12-14T09:11:04","slug":"npp-government-now-a-scarecrow-hounding-out-state-officials-baba-jamal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/12\/14\/npp-government-now-a-scarecrow-hounding-out-state-officials-baba-jamal\/","title":{"rendered":"NPP government now a scarecrow, hounding out state officials \u2013 Baba Jamal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Thursday, 14 December 2017<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>atinkaonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2017-12-14<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/59325209.295.jpg\" alt=\"Baba Jamal2\" title=\"Baba Jamal2\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Baba Jamal, Former Deputy Minister for Labour and Employment Relations<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/12\/1513242664_497_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Former Member of Parliament (MP) for Akwatia in the Eastern Region, Baba Jamal, has described President Akufo-Addo\u2019s government as a scarecrow, victimizing state officials, who they perceive as political opponents<\/p>\n<p>Baba Jamal\u2019s comments follow reports of power tussle between the Second Deputy Governor of the Bank of Ghana (BoG), Dr. Johnson Asiama and the ruling government. <\/p>\n<p>The fate of Dr. Asiama is uncertain as his legal advisor has alleged that government is pushing for his exit from the Central Bank.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Atinka TV\u2019s \u201cGhana Nie\u201d Wednesday, Baba Jamal said, President Akufo Addo&#8217;s government has become a scarecrow, hounding top state officials from office and replacing them with New Patriotic Party (NPP) faithful.  This, he described as robbing Peter to Paul.<\/p>\n<p>The former Deputy Minister for Employment and Labour Relations revealed that all government officials who have barely served for six months at post were all shoved off with no tangible reasons. Even those on probation were shown no mercy.  <\/p>\n<p>According to him, Ghana\u2019s High Commissioner to South Africa, Ayisi Boateng\u2019s recent \u201cSome Ghanaians more Ghanaian than others\u201d comments supports   his assertion <\/p>\n<p>Lawyer Baba Jamal recounted how late President Mills maintained some District Chief Executives (DCEs) and some government officials who owed allegiance to the then defeated NPP under former President Kufuor.  <\/p>\n<p>He said, it was disturbing that President Akufo Addo had failed to emulate such praiseworthy example.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 32 updated by: 32 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Thursday, 14 December 2017 Source: atinkaonline.com 2017-12-14 Baba Jamal, Former Deputy Minister for Labour and Employment Relations Former Member of Parliament (MP) for Akwatia in the Eastern Region, Baba Jamal, has described President Akufo-Addo\u2019s government as a scarecrow, victimizing state officials, who they perceive as political opponents Baba Jamal\u2019s comments follow reports [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":413651,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-446972","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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