{"id":462030,"date":"2018-02-06T21:10:51","date_gmt":"2018-02-06T21:10:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/06\/34-luxury-cars-for-presidency-needless-nkrumah\/"},"modified":"2018-02-06T21:10:51","modified_gmt":"2018-02-06T21:10:51","slug":"34-luxury-cars-for-presidency-needless-nkrumah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/06\/34-luxury-cars-for-presidency-needless-nkrumah\/","title":{"rendered":"34 luxury cars for presidency &#8216;needless&#8217; &#8211; Nkrumah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Tuesday,  6 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>peacefmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-06<\/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\/20185805.295.jpg\" alt=\"Nkrumah54e\" title=\"Nkrumah54e\" width=\"295\" height=\"184\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Divine Nkrumah, PPP National Youth Coordinator<\/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\/1517951451_175_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">National Youth Coordinator of the Progressive People&#8217;s Party (PPP), Divine Nkrumah has described the acquisition of Thirty Four [34] luxury cars for the presidency as \u201cuseless\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>He asked if the President before the arrival of the cars walked to state functions or complained he needed the cars as purported by some NDC members.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is just a waste of money\u201d, he said. <\/p>\n<p>According to Citi FM, government over the weekend took delivery of Thirty Four [34] cars for the presidency, ten of which have bullet resistant exterior.<\/p>\n<p>Citi FM indicated that the luxury cars arrived on a Global African Airlines cargo plane.<\/p>\n<p>The presidential fleet contract was awarded by the John Mahama administration barely a week before they left office.<\/p>\n<p>The original number of cars ordered was Forty Three [43]. The New Patriotic Party administration, which had attempted to cancel the entire contract but failed due to certain clauses in the contract, managed to reduce the number to 34.<\/p>\n<p>By so doing, it saved the country Three Million Dollars, from the initial cost of Nine Million dollars for the 43 cars. They also avoided incurring a judgement debt, by deciding not to cancel the contract.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to the issue on NEAT FM morning how \u2018Ghana Montie\u2019, Divine Nkrumah after commending the Nana Addo-led government for saving three million dollars from the initial amount, lambasted the Mahama administration for \u2018wasting\u2019 such huge amount.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhat is the motive behind the purchase? 34 cars for the presidency, are we going to use them to transport cattle? Common ambulance we don\u2019t have some here in our various hospitals yet buying luxury cars for the presidency\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 32 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 Tuesday, 6 February 2018 Source: peacefmonline.com 2018-02-06 Divine Nkrumah, PPP National Youth Coordinator National Youth Coordinator of the Progressive People&#8217;s Party (PPP), Divine Nkrumah has described the acquisition of Thirty Four [34] luxury cars for the presidency as \u201cuseless\u201d. He asked if the President before the arrival of the cars walked to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":462031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462030","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\/462030","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=462030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}