{"id":1193772,"date":"2022-08-29T13:22:08","date_gmt":"2022-08-29T13:22:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/29\/im-jobless-people-i-helped-pass-by-to-give-me-money-former-mp\/"},"modified":"2022-08-29T13:22:08","modified_gmt":"2022-08-29T13:22:08","slug":"im-jobless-people-i-helped-pass-by-to-give-me-money-former-mp","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/08\/29\/im-jobless-people-i-helped-pass-by-to-give-me-money-former-mp\/","title":{"rendered":"I\u2019m jobless, people I helped pass by to give me money &#8211;\u00a0Former MP"},"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=\"I\u2019m jobless, people I helped pass by to give me money - Former MP\" title=\"I\u2019m jobless, people I helped pass by to give me money - Former MP\"><\/span> Bookmark<\/p-->\n<p>A former Member of Parliament for La Dade-Kotopon, Nii Amasah Namoale has recounted how hard life has been since he left office.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Namoale who was once a Deputy Minister for the Agriculture Ministry says since he lost his renowned positions in 2017, he has been struggling to make ends meet.<\/p>\n<p>As a lawmaker and Minister, Mr Namoale said he enjoyed the perks at the time. However, things have gone downhill since he was voted out of office.<\/p>\n<p>Sharing a bitter experience of life after Parliament, the former legislator said all efforts to find a job have proved futile.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Adom News, Mr Namoale said he now depends on the benevolence of friends and family to survive.<\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"Qvypz30Ue7w\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"I&#039;m not getting job, people I helped pass by to give me cash - Nii Amasah Namoale\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Qvypz30Ue7w?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>\u201cThe country hasn\u2019t made any arrangement for lawmakers to survive on when they leave Parliament. I have searched for jobs since I left and I haven\u2019t found any. So if it wasn\u2019t for the support of my friends and family, life would have been very difficult.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlso some of the people I helped while in office, visit me once in a while and give me cash,\u201d he told Adom News.<\/p>\n<p>He also gave instances where some of his former colleagues are battling health conditions and are not able to help themselves.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI can\u2019t mention their names but some are so poor that, they cannot take care of their families,\u201d he noted.<\/p>\n<p>Despite these challenges, Mr Namoale maintained he never regrets serving the good people of La Dade -Kotopon.<\/p>\n<p>                <!-- Post Tags --><\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Member of Parliament for La Dade-Kotopon, Nii Amasah Namoale has recounted how hard life has been since he left office. Mr Namoale who was once a Deputy Minister for the Agriculture Ministry says since he lost his renowned positions in 2017, he has been struggling to make ends meet. As a lawmaker and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1193776,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[495,6499,7113,383,2586,345],"class_list":["post-1193772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-give","tag-helped","tag-jobless","tag-money","tag-pass","tag-people"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193772","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=1193772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1193772\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1193772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1193772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1193772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}