{"id":460942,"date":"2018-02-02T21:10:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-02T21:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/02\/upper-west-ministers-suspension-embarrassing-npp-vice-chair\/"},"modified":"2018-02-02T21:10:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-02T21:10:51","slug":"upper-west-ministers-suspension-embarrassing-npp-vice-chair","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/02\/upper-west-ministers-suspension-embarrassing-npp-vice-chair\/","title":{"rendered":"Upper West Minister\u2019s suspension \u2018embarrassing\u2019 \u2013 NPP Vice Chair"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday,  2 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Starrfmonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2018-02-02<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/22253506.295.jpg\" alt=\"Sulemana Alhassan   \" title=\"Sulemana Alhassan   \" width=\"295\" height=\"205\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Sulemana Alhassan, Suspended Upper West Regional Minister<\/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=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1517605851_218_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The Second Vice Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Fredua-Agyeman Ofori Atta has said if he were the Upper West Regional Minister he would feel embarrassed by the proceed on suspension directive handed him by the President.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspension is as embarrassing as a sacking or anything. It is to the person. There is no doubt about it,\u201d he stated Friday on Morning Starr.<\/p>\n<p>Again, he continued, \u201cI am not referring to the Minister per se but if I were suspended I would be embarrassed.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo, it has that mark,\u201d he told Morning Starr host Francis Abban.<\/p>\n<p>Sulemana Alhassan was suspended on Thursday with immediate effect after angry workers of NADMO, in the Upper West region criticized the Regional Minister for shielding hooligans who attacked the NADMO Regional Director, instead of allowing the police to arrest them.<\/p>\n<p>Alhassan will remain on suspension \u201cpending the outcome of the investigation into the unfortunate incidents that occurred at the premises of the Upper West Regional office of the National Disaster Management Organisation (NADMO), in Wa, on Wednesday, 31st January, 2018.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Commenting on the development, a former deputy minister Ibrahim Murtala Mohammed described President Akufo-Addo\u2019s directive to the Upper West regional minister to proceed on suspension as \u201ca complete joke.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSince when did it dawn on the president to start taking such actions?\u201d he wondered, arguing that the directive was a \u201ccomplete violation of the Constitution.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Fredua-Agyeman Ofori Atta, however, disagreed, noting that the President acted appropriately and in tandem with the constitution.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnybody who doesn\u2019t understand Article 81 of our Constitution in its clear terms is not speaking the truth\u2026 The Regional Minister has the option of resigning. He also has the option of staying in there and proving he did nothing wrong.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe suspension of the Regional Minister sends a signal to other public officials serving under the Akufo-Addo administration,\u201d he iterated.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 26 updated by: -1 --><\/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 Friday, 2 February 2018 Source: Starrfmonline.com 2018-02-02 Sulemana Alhassan, Suspended Upper West Regional Minister The Second Vice Chairman of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), Nana Fredua-Agyeman Ofori Atta has said if he were the Upper West Regional Minister he would feel embarrassed by the proceed on suspension directive handed him by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":460943,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-460942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}