{"id":1170980,"date":"2022-08-08T22:54:43","date_gmt":"2022-08-08T22:54:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/08\/finance-minister-is-like-stale-water-in-a-bottle-sammy-gyamfi-insists-on-reshuffling\/"},"modified":"2022-08-08T22:54:43","modified_gmt":"2022-08-08T22:54:43","slug":"finance-minister-is-like-stale-water-in-a-bottle-sammy-gyamfi-insists-on-reshuffling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/08\/finance-minister-is-like-stale-water-in-a-bottle-sammy-gyamfi-insists-on-reshuffling\/","title":{"rendered":"Finance Minister is like stale water in a bottle &#8211; Sammy Gyamfi insists on reshuffling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\" style=\"line-height: 2; letter-spacing: -0.5px;font-size: 18px;\">\n<p>                        <!--p class=\"ky_saved_articles_link\"><span class=\"ky_saved_articles_hide\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\" class=\"ky_saved_articles_img\" alt=\"Finance Minister is like stale water in a bottle - Sammy Gyamfi insists on reshuffling\" title=\"Finance Minister is like stale water in a bottle - Sammy Gyamfi insists on reshuffling\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>The National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress, Sammy Gyamfi has maintained his stance on the need for President Akufo-Addo to reshuffle the current crop of ministers <\/p>\n<p>He particularly wants the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, to go.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in an interview on <strong>Joy FM\u2019s Top Story<\/strong> on Monday, he contended that the Finance Minister is like stale water in a bottle, adding that \u201cthere is no reason he must still be in office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1320293053&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>In local parlance it is said that when water gets stale in a bottle, it stinks.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, \u201cthe earlier he is fired for a more competent hand to take to charge, the better for us.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo in an interview on Tamale-based North Star FM ruled out any reshuffle of his ministers.<\/p>\n<p>He said he is of the view that some of the calls come with ulterior motives.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-myjoyonline-com wp-block-embed-myjoyonline-com\"\/>\n<p>He, therefore, stated that he won\u2019t heed to plans of the NDC to destabilise his government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe calls come for all kinds of reasons; NDC wanting to destabilise the government is one. There are people who are also looking for jobs.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In response, Mr. Gyamfi stated that the President\u2019s claims are not true and not borne out of facts.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that \u201cthere are many people in this country  journalists, public servants, NPP supporters who have called on the President to reshuffle his non performing ministers.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-wp-embed is-provider-myjoyonline-com wp-block-embed-myjoyonline-com\"\/>\n<p>According to him, President Akufo-Addo\u2019s comment, clearly indicates that he has lost touch with the realities in the country.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIf there is any doubt that President Akufo-Addo has lost touch with the realities in Ghana today, this latest comment of his should clear any such doubt. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt should settle the fact that we have a President who is not in tune with the happenings in this country and the feelings and sensibilities of people in this country,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Gyamfi added that the Finance Minister\u2019s deeds that have led to the country\u2019s downgrade by Moody, Flinch and S&#038;P also confirms his assertion.<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Communications Officer of the National Democratic Congress, Sammy Gyamfi has maintained his stance on the need for President Akufo-Addo to reshuffle the current crop of ministers He particularly wants the Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta, to go. Speaking in an interview on Joy FM\u2019s Top Story on Monday, he contended that the Finance Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1170982,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[1120,457,835,4827,1223,22305,838,22741,1410],"class_list":["post-1170980","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-bottle","tag-finance","tag-gyamfi","tag-insists","tag-minister","tag-reshuffling","tag-sammy","tag-stale","tag-water"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170980","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=1170980"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1170980\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1170980"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1170980"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1170980"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}