{"id":462831,"date":"2018-02-08T23:11:00","date_gmt":"2018-02-08T23:11:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/08\/sona2018-minority-mps-tape-mouths-as-protest\/"},"modified":"2018-02-08T23:11:00","modified_gmt":"2018-02-08T23:11:00","slug":"sona2018-minority-mps-tape-mouths-as-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/08\/sona2018-minority-mps-tape-mouths-as-protest\/","title":{"rendered":"SONA2018: Minority MPs tape mouths as protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/80404638.295.jpg\" alt=\"Minority Mp Tapemouth\" title=\"Minority Mp Tapemouth\" width=\"295\" height=\"184\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>The Minority MPs taped their mouths to protest against Akufo-Addo&#8217;s government<\/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\/2018\/02\/1518131460_743_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> To demonstrate their protest against the Akufo-Addo government, some Minority MPs wore black to parliament and also taped their mouths during the president\u2019s second State of the Nation Address on Thursday, 8 February.<\/p>\n<p>Explaining the rationale behind the mouth-taping, Ras Mubarak told the media that it was to drum home their concerns about how democracy was being run down in Ghana by the Akufo-Addo administration.<\/p>\n<p>Minority Leader, Haruna Iddrisu, who also wore black, described President Akufo-Addo\u2019s address as \u2018State of Promises.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>Minority Chief Whip Muntaka Mubarak also said the president \u201cwasted all his time talking about what he was going to do.\u201d<\/p>\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>The Minority MPs taped their mouths to protest against Akufo-Addo&#8217;s government To demonstrate their protest against the Akufo-Addo government, some Minority MPs wore black to parliament and also taped their mouths during the president\u2019s second State of the Nation Address on Thursday, 8 February. Explaining the rationale behind the mouth-taping, Ras Mubarak told the media [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":462832,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462831","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\/462831","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=462831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}