{"id":1118423,"date":"2022-06-11T15:49:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-11T15:49:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/11\/learn-to-tolerate-criticism-john-mahama-to-akufo-addo\/"},"modified":"2022-06-11T15:49:07","modified_gmt":"2022-06-11T15:49:07","slug":"learn-to-tolerate-criticism-john-mahama-to-akufo-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/11\/learn-to-tolerate-criticism-john-mahama-to-akufo-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"Learn to tolerate criticism \u2013 John Mahama to Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>Former President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama has once again charge on the current President, His Excellency Nana Addo on how he keeps on tormenting people for sharing their opinion if it goes against him. The former President, Mahama made some comments following how he claimed most of the media men who mostly speaks against this government faces problem.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/ccbc93132ec24554840deb79fd24d045\"\/><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(33, 37, 41);\">\u201cWe believe that the ability of citizens to express themselves freely is a right and not a privilege. This administration must learn to tolerate criticisms and enhance free speech while protecting journalists from harm,\u201d Mr Mahama said in a statement to mark the birth of the National Democratic Congress (NDC). He said. He went ahead of accuse the President of finding ways to mute journalists who have been on his nerve in his governance.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The former President expressed concerns about suppression of the press, which he said had resulted in \u201cthe media being cowed into silence.\u201d He believes \u201can intimidated citizenry do not constitute the appropriate resource for sustainable progress and national development.\u201d He added.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(33, 37, 41);\">\u201cDemocracy, transparency and accountability are bed fellows, and therefore, while creating opportunities for all, leaders are also required to wage a strong battle against corruption,\u201d Mr Mahama added<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(33, 37, 41);\">Thanks, kindly follow me for more updates and share as well.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgb(33, 37, 41);\">Source: adomonline <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Whistler (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAkufo-Addo<br \/>\nGhana<br \/>\nJohn Dramani Mahama<br \/>\nMahama<br \/>\nNana Addo<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President of Ghana, John Dramani Mahama has once again charge on the current President, His Excellency Nana Addo on how he keeps on tormenting people for sharing their opinion if it goes against him. The former President, Mahama made some comments following how he claimed most of the media men who mostly speaks against [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1118424,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[648,2833,678,4559,1125,15942],"class_list":["post-1118423","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-akufoaddo","tag-criticism","tag-john","tag-learn","tag-mahama","tag-tolerate"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118423","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=1118423"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1118423\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1118423"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1118423"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1118423"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}