{"id":672169,"date":"2019-08-05T11:19:07","date_gmt":"2019-08-05T11:19:07","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>Former President John Mahama<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>FORMER President John Dramani\nMahama was parodied during the weekend for posting on his social media\nplatforms that he is \u201cready to work hard to provide jobs for the youth and\nreduce "},"modified":"2019-08-05T11:19:07","modified_gmt":"2019-08-05T11:19:07","slug":"mahama-lashed-over-job-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/05\/mahama-lashed-over-job-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama Lashed Over Job Promises"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Former President John Mahama<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>FORMER President John Dramani<br \/>\nMahama was parodied during the weekend for posting on his social media<br \/>\nplatforms that he is \u201cready to work hard to provide jobs for the youth and<br \/>\nreduce the high cost of living in the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Twitter users particularly were<br \/>\nquick to jeer at him and questioned what his leadership did to solve<br \/>\nunemployment, with assertions that he put a freeze on employment for four years<br \/>\nduring his tenure.<\/p>\n<p>Some users just made jokes about<br \/>\nhow Mr Mahama handled the unemployment situation with reference to his<br \/>\ncancellation of allowances for trainee nurses and teachers, which has been<br \/>\nrestored by the present administration.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAaa JM and who said you are<br \/>\nnot ready? You were ready both in 2008 and 2012 yet you messed up. We can\u2019t<br \/>\ntrust you again Masa (sic),\u201d one MagzyGH said in a reply to the former<br \/>\nPresident.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Agana responded: \u201cYou<br \/>\nhad a chance, you didn\u2019t take it (sic),\u201d whilst one Baffy Da Kobby Popp stated:<br \/>\n\u201cAfter wasting our 9 years u now ready! We too we are not ready (sic)\u201d. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWho cancelled nurse\/teacher<br \/>\ntrainee allowances? Who took us to the IMF and froze public employment; gave us<br \/>\ndumsor\u2026(sic)\u201d one Yaw Abban questioned the flag bearer of the opposition<br \/>\nNational Democratic Congress (NDC) as he stages a comeback.<\/p>\n<p>Users of Facebook were also not charitable to the former President with many laughing off over his post, while some became indignant. <\/p>\n<p><strong>From Ernest Kofi Adu, Kumasi<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President John Mahama FORMER President John Dramani Mahama was parodied during the weekend for posting on his social media platforms that he is \u201cready to work hard to provide jobs for the youth and reduce the high cost of living in the country.\u201d Twitter users particularly were quick to jeer at him and questioned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":672170,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-672169","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - 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