{"id":1109280,"date":"2022-06-03T15:23:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T15:23:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/03\/i-never-opposed-agyapa-deal-but\/"},"modified":"2022-06-03T15:23:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T15:23:27","slug":"i-never-opposed-agyapa-deal-but","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/03\/i-never-opposed-agyapa-deal-but\/","title":{"rendered":"I never opposed Agyapa deal but &#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"585\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/image_2022-06-03_125215010-696x585.png\"   alt=\"Image source: Momin studios\" title=\"Ellen Ama Daaku\"\/><\/div>\n<p>New Patriotic Party (NPP) National Women\u2019s Organizer Hopeful, Ellen Ama Daaku, has cleared the air about her stance on the controversial Agyapa Royalties deal.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, she has never opposed the Agyapa deal as speculated, however, she had some reservations with the concept relating to its operation. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cI never opposed Agyapa deal, I had my reservations, I am someone who will always criticize something which won\u2019t help the country,\u201d she clarified.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <strong>Adom FM Dwaso Nsem<\/strong>, Mrs. Daku said the Agyapa deal needed to be taken through the appropriate process, \u2018consensus building\u2019 with other other parties involved to make it work.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>\u201cTill date, I agree that If this deal is done well, it will help Ghana but the process was what I had an issue with.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI had been advocating for consensus building with the opposition in Parliament and other parties involved to take their views into consideration,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta has advocated for a reconsideration of the deal instead of it being  abandoned.<\/p>\n<p>He believes it could reduce the country\u2019s debt exposure and it should therefore be taken through appropriate procedures.<\/p>\n<p>But the Minority has vowed to oppose the deal should it resurface in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"SbNl18Af6Jo\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam Sports News on Adom TV (3-6-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/SbNl18Af6Jo?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New Patriotic Party (NPP) National Women\u2019s Organizer Hopeful, Ellen Ama Daaku, has cleared the air about her stance on the controversial Agyapa Royalties deal. According to her, she has never opposed the Agyapa deal as speculated, however, she had some reservations with the concept relating to its operation. \u201cI never opposed Agyapa deal, I had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1109282,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[6011,807,12425],"class_list":["post-1109280","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-agyapa","tag-deal","tag-opposed"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109280","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1109280"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1109280\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1109280"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1109280"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1109280"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}