{"id":462876,"date":"2018-02-09T02:21:34","date_gmt":"2018-02-09T02:21:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/09\/sona-2018-akufo-addo-spoke-well-but-content-was-low-amissah-arthur\/"},"modified":"2018-02-09T02:21:34","modified_gmt":"2018-02-09T02:21:34","slug":"sona-2018-akufo-addo-spoke-well-but-content-was-low-amissah-arthur","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/09\/sona-2018-akufo-addo-spoke-well-but-content-was-low-amissah-arthur\/","title":{"rendered":"SONA 2018: Akufo-Addo spoke well but content was low &#8211; Amissah-Arthur"},"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,  9 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>Myjoyonline.com <\/p>\n<p>2018-02-09<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/87167086.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kwesi Bekoe Amissah Arthur Ex Veep\" title=\"Kwesi Bekoe Amissah Arthur Ex Veep\" width=\"295\" height=\"197\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Former Vice President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur<\/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\/1518142894_399_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> The usually reserved, easy going, soft-spoken former vice president has described the 2018 state of the nation address delivered by the president Nana Akufo-Addo \u201clow in content.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Amissah-Arthur fired the salvo minutes after the president had presented the state of the nation address to Parliament, Thursday in line with Article 67 of the 1992 Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>He told journalists the president speaks well but the content in his presentation was not encouraging.<\/p>\n<p>Amissah-Arthur was among high profile dignitaries including ex-presidents John Rawlings, John Kufuor, John Mahama and other diplomats who were present listening with rapt attention at the gallery of Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>The president was heckled for the most part of his presentation by the minority who consistently sang the part of the national anthem that called for a resistance to oppressor\u2019s rule.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAnd help us to resist oppressor\u2019s rule with all our will,\u201d they sang repeatedly in protest over the fallouts of the cash for seat probe.<\/p>\n<p>But the president appeared unfazed by the distractions. For close to two hours, the president touched on the economy, education, tourism, sports, security, corruption and a number of his popular campaign policies, one district one factory, one village, one dam, etc.<\/p>\n<p>His presentation did not also lack subtle jabs at his predecessor government which he accused of leaving behind a rundown economy, choked with debt.<\/p>\n<p>It appears the former vice president who was the head of the economic management team was not impressed the least by the president\u2019s remarks.<\/p>\n<p>Paa Kwesi Amissah Arthur took advantage of the opportunity provided by the journalists to get back at the president.<\/p>\n<p>He was particularly unhappy with the growing insecurity in the country with the conduct of some NPP vigilante groups and berated the president for not speaking about it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe speaks very well but the content was little. The worry of most people is the insecurity. I thought that he was going to empower the law enforcement agencies to deal with political partisan groups who are creating uncertainties and fear in people,\u201d he lamented.<\/p>\n<p>When he was reminded of the president\u2019s promise to retool the police in order for them to crack down on criminals, he said: \u201cretooling is not empowering the police against political violence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/fEliycSix9M\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; encrypted-media\" allowfullscreen=\"\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/FATBlCvd-GtVgZhNx.html\" width=\"600\" height=\"350\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen=\"\" style=\"position:absolute;\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 33 updated by: 33 --><\/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, 9 February 2018 Source: Myjoyonline.com 2018-02-09 Former Vice President Kwesi Bekoe Amissah-Arthur The usually reserved, easy going, soft-spoken former vice president has described the 2018 state of the nation address delivered by the president Nana Akufo-Addo \u201clow in content.\u201d Amissah-Arthur fired the salvo minutes after the president had presented the state [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":401412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462876","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\/462876","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=462876"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462876\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462876"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462876"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462876"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}