{"id":1116296,"date":"2022-06-09T18:38:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-09T18:38:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/09\/there-was-no-way-i-could-spend-over-%e2%82%b5300000-ex-gratia-togbe-afede-xiv\/"},"modified":"2022-06-09T18:38:27","modified_gmt":"2022-06-09T18:38:27","slug":"there-was-no-way-i-could-spend-over-%e2%82%b5300000-ex-gratia-togbe-afede-xiv","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/09\/there-was-no-way-i-could-spend-over-%e2%82%b5300000-ex-gratia-togbe-afede-xiv\/","title":{"rendered":"There was no way I could spend over \u20b5300,000 ex-gratia \u2013 Togbe Afede XIV"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"464\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/1654799907_525_Togbe-Afede-696x464.jpg\"   alt=\"Togbe Afede XIV\" title=\"Togbe Afede\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">President of Asogli Traditional Area<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>   <!--  --><\/p>\n<p>Former Council of State member, Togbe Afede XIV has asserted that he could never have been able to expend the over GH\u00a2365,000 ex-gratia paid to him for serving on the Council of State between 2017 and 2020.<\/p>\n<p>The Paramount Chief and Agbogbomefia of Asogli in an exclusive interview with\u00a0<strong>JoyNews\u00a0<\/strong>on Thursday, emphasised that he was surprised by the huge amount paid into his account as ex-gratia.<\/p>\n<p>Defending his decision to return the ex-gratia paid him, Togbe Afede XIV reiterated that his four-year part-time job as a Member of the Council of State does not merit such quantum of money as an extra reward.<\/p>\n<p>Mor soon\u2026<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ:<\/strong><\/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=\"dCarh6r4H4M\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Kasiebo Tau At 3:55 PM on Adom TV (9-6-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/dCarh6r4H4M?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>President of Asogli Traditional Area Former Council of State member, Togbe Afede XIV has asserted that he could never have been able to expend the over GH\u00a2365,000 ex-gratia paid to him for serving on the Council of State between 2017 and 2020. The Paramount Chief and Agbogbomefia of Asogli in an exclusive interview with\u00a0JoyNews\u00a0on Thursday, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1116301,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[4632,16028,2692,4634,6060],"class_list":["post-1116296","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-afede","tag-exgratia","tag-spend","tag-togbe","tag-xiv"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116296","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=1116296"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1116296\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1116296"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1116296"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1116296"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}