{"id":1182807,"date":"2022-08-18T14:30:07","date_gmt":"2022-08-18T14:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/18\/why-i-didnt-resign-as-works-and-housing-minister-atta-akyea-explains\/"},"modified":"2022-08-18T14:30:07","modified_gmt":"2022-08-18T14:30:07","slug":"why-i-didnt-resign-as-works-and-housing-minister-atta-akyea-explains","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/18\/why-i-didnt-resign-as-works-and-housing-minister-atta-akyea-explains\/","title":{"rendered":"Why I didn\u2019t resign as Works and Housing Minister \u2013 Atta Akyea explains"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/08\/15114189-EB61-4699-AB1E-092C376AB5FD-696x522.jpeg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Samuel Atta Akyea\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Former Works and Housing Minister, Samuel Atta Akyea, has explained why he did not resign as Works and Housing Minister.<\/p>\n<p>He indicated that, though a large amount of his budget was not released for projects, he needed to help President Akufo-Addo achieve his vision.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Atta Akyea was not re-appointed as Minister in President Akufo-Addo\u2019s second term. He was replaced by Presidential staffer, Francis Asenso Boakye.<\/p>\n<p>There were speculations that, he was replaced due to non-performance as Works and Housing Minister.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>But speaking on Asempa FM\u2019s <strong>Ekosii Sen<\/strong> programme Wednesday, Mr Atta Akyea said a lot of things impeded his progress at the Ministry.<\/p>\n<p>The Abuakwa South Member of Parliament said reducing the housing deficit in the country was his priority but the President had other plans.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Minister is not supposed to overrule the President in terms of priority projects. I wanted to do housing but the President was focused on roads,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Atta Akyea said he was happy he left a good legacy and did not disgrace President Akufo-Addo who gave him the opportunity to serve the people of Ghana.<\/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=\"Fke3tWRhCFI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam Media Review on Adom TV (18-8-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Fke3tWRhCFI?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>Former Works and Housing Minister, Samuel Atta Akyea, has explained why he did not resign as Works and Housing Minister. He indicated that, though a large amount of his budget was not released for projects, he needed to help President Akufo-Addo achieve his vision. Mr Atta Akyea was not re-appointed as Minister in President Akufo-Addo\u2019s [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1182809,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[15103,4075,2273,2058,2740,1223,2562,6086],"class_list":["post-1182807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-akyea","tag-atta","tag-didnt","tag-explains","tag-housing","tag-minister","tag-resign","tag-works"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182807","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=1182807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1182807\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1182807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1182807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1182807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}