{"id":467597,"date":"2018-02-26T07:27:04","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T07:27:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/26\/ministries-of-lands-forestry-agriculture-must-not-be-in-accra-okyehene\/"},"modified":"2018-02-26T07:27:04","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T07:27:04","slug":"ministries-of-lands-forestry-agriculture-must-not-be-in-accra-okyehene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/26\/ministries-of-lands-forestry-agriculture-must-not-be-in-accra-okyehene\/","title":{"rendered":"Ministries of Lands &#038; Forestry, Agriculture must not be in Accra &#8211; Okyehene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/okyehene-475x267.jpg\" \/><\/p>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"> <\/aside>\n<p>The Chief of Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Area, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin II, is pushing for government to do more to promote decentralization of governance, as he believes the move will be one sure way to expand the economies of rural Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, this will also check over population in the Greater Accra Region where the country\u2019s capital is located.<\/p>\n<p>Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin II urged government to draw a new decentralization plan that will see some Ministries being moved from Accra to rural Ghana.<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p><em>\u201cIf we want to seriously believe that we can turn this country around, then we should take aggressive, radical changes in our country. What\u2019s the Ministry of Lands and Forestry doing in Accra? I\u2019ve challenged governments to move at least 10 Ministries into rural areas. The Ministry of Agriculture shouldn\u2019t have been in Accra, The Ministry of Lands and Forestry should not be in Accra, the Ministry of Local Government should be somewhere else.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIf we move\u00a0 10 Ministries in each rural regions, you\u2019ll see this country change because people will begin to look for jobs where they are. We\u2019ll begin to decongest Accra, there\u2019ll be no homelessness here. But it takes courage and grit to make such moves and it takes people who believe in building infrastructure.\u201d<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote><\/div>\n<p><script>(function(d, s, id) {var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if (d.getElementById(id)) return;js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&appId=1136575713042949&version=v2.3\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><script>(function(d, s, id) {var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];if (d.getElementById(id)) return;js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;js.src = \"http:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&version=v2.6\";fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);}(document, 'script', 'facebook-jssdk'));<\/script><\/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 Chief of Akyem Abuakwa Traditional Area, Osagyefo Amoatia Ofori Panin II, is pushing for government to do more to promote decentralization of governance, as he believes the move will be one sure way to expand the economies of rural Ghana. According to him, this will also check over population in the Greater Accra Region [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":467598,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467597","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=467597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}