{"id":608870,"date":"2019-04-19T16:01:54","date_gmt":"2019-04-19T16:01:54","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday, 19 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>starrfm.com.gh<\/p>\n2019-04-19\n\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghana-mma.com\/2019\/04\/67815111"},"modified":"2019-04-19T16:01:54","modified_gmt":"2019-04-19T16:01:54","slug":"afeku-should-have-been-sacked-from-government-ebo-quansah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/19\/afeku-should-have-been-sacked-from-government-ebo-quansah\/","title":{"rendered":"Afeku should have been sacked from government \u2013 Ebo Quansah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Friday, 19 April 2019<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>starrfm.com.gh<\/p>\n<p>2019-04-19<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/67815111.295.jpg\" alt=\"Catherine Afeku8\" title=\"Catherine Afeku8\" width=\"295\" height=\"215\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>President Akufo-Addo reassigned Mrs Afeku to the office of the Senior Minister at the Presidency<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">Veteran journalist Ebo Quansah has said former Tourism minister Catherine Afeku should have been sacked from government by President Akufo-Addo.<\/p>\n<p>He said he does not know what the former minister has been doing in government to merit a reassignment by the President.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo reassigned Mrs Afeku to the office of the Senior Minister at the Presidency in his maiden reshuffle in government.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Afeku who is also a lawmaker has been instrumental in the organisation of the Year of return event and also brought some key american celebrities with African ancestory to Ghana in December 2018.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Bola Ray on Starr Chat, the general manager of the Chronicle Newspaper said the President can run a lean government by merging some of the ministries.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAfeku should have been sacked I don\u2019t know why she was giving another position, I don\u2019t know what she has been doing. I also think some of the ministries could be merged. For instance Communication and Information ministries could be merged and some others too,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He also singled out now Energy minister Peter Amewu for his role in the fight against illegal mining popularly known as galamsey.<\/p>\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, 19 April 2019 Source: starrfm.com.gh 2019-04-19 President Akufo-Addo reassigned Mrs Afeku to the office of the Senior Minister at the Presidency Veteran journalist Ebo Quansah has said former Tourism minister Catherine Afeku should have been sacked from government by President Akufo-Addo. He said he does not know what the former minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":608871,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-608870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Afeku should have been sacked from government \u2013 Ebo Quansah - Ghanamma.com<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/04\/19\/afeku-should-have-been-sacked-from-government-ebo-quansah\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Afeku should have been sacked from government \u2013 Ebo Quansah - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"General News of Friday, 19 April 2019 Source: starrfm.com.gh 2019-04-19 President Akufo-Addo reassigned Mrs Afeku to the office of the Senior Minister at the Presidency Veteran journalist Ebo Quansah has said former Tourism minister Catherine Afeku should have been sacked from government by President Akufo-Addo. 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