{"id":1171163,"date":"2022-08-09T06:48:50","date_gmt":"2022-08-09T06:48:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/09\/ablakwa-slams-akufo-addo-following-positive-assessment-of-ministers\/"},"modified":"2022-08-09T06:48:50","modified_gmt":"2022-08-09T06:48:50","slug":"ablakwa-slams-akufo-addo-following-positive-assessment-of-ministers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/09\/ablakwa-slams-akufo-addo-following-positive-assessment-of-ministers\/","title":{"rendered":"Ablakwa slams Akufo-Addo following positive assessment of ministers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has slammed President Nana Akufo-Addo describing him as out of touch with reality for not seeing the need for a shake-up within the executive.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to the President\u2019s remark that he has no intention to reshuffle his ministers, Mr. Ablakwa said President Akufo-Addo was \u201cclearly living in a world of his own.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The President said most of his ministers were outstanding and meeting expectations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs President Akufo-Addo really living in a reality, or he is in a bubble? He has totally lost touch,\u201d the MP said on <strong>Eyewitness News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ablakwa cited the situation in Malawi, where its President, Lazarus Chakwera, sacked his entire cabinet over corruption concerns.<\/p>\n<p>But corruption concerns levelled against members of the Akufo-Addo government are treated lightly, Mr. Ablakwa complained.<\/p>\n<p>He noted the role of the Minister for Health, Kwaku Agyemang-Manu, in the <strong>\u00a0Sputnik-V vaccines procurement scandal.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In relation to this scandal, Mr. Ablawka said the President only insulted Ghanaians \u201cby going to his [Agyemang-Manu\u2019s] constituency to defend publicly a corrupt Health Minister.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ablakwa also said the mismanagement of the economy alone, where Standard and Poor\u2019s (S&#038;P) global ratings downgraded Ghana\u2019s foreign and local credit ratings from B-B\u2019 to CCC+C with a negative economic outlook, necessitated a shake-up.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is a situation that calls for a president to act like the Malawian President and fire his entire cabinet and bring a new team with fresh ideas because we are in crisis,\u201d the MP added.<\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo\u2019s\u00a0<strong>only ministerial reshuffle<\/strong>\u00a0was during his first term, in August 2018.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"ZrcyoPjvsHk\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"#NPPDecides: Gabby Otchere-Darko speaks on possible ministerial reshuffle; NPP&#039;s 2024 chances\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZrcyoPjvsHk?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Member of Parliament for North Tongu, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, has slammed President Nana Akufo-Addo describing him as out of touch with reality for not seeing the need for a shake-up within the executive. Responding to the President\u2019s remark that he has no intention to reshuffle his ministers, Mr. Ablakwa said President Akufo-Addo was \u201cclearly [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1171147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[2198,648,19046,1477,191,1233],"class_list":["post-1171163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-ablakwa","tag-akufoaddo","tag-assessment","tag-ministers","tag-positive","tag-slams"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171163","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=1171163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1171163\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1171163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1171163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1171163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}