{"id":1219521,"date":"2022-10-09T09:50:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-09T09:50:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/09\/mahama-fires-ec-judiciary-media\/"},"modified":"2022-10-09T09:50:26","modified_gmt":"2022-10-09T09:50:26","slug":"mahama-fires-ec-judiciary-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/09\/mahama-fires-ec-judiciary-media\/","title":{"rendered":"Mahama Fires EC, Judiciary, Media"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Former President John Dramani Mahama appears not pleased with the work output of some key institutions in the country as he wants them to do more.<\/p>\n<p>According to Mr. Mahama, a state institution such as the Electoral Commission (EC) owes it a sacred duty of care to the people by ensuring they are included in the electoral process and not excluded in the interest of the incumbent administration.<\/p>\n<p>He believes the media has been economical with the truth and also asked the media to report facts without bias, and also to hold the government of the day accountable.<\/p>\n<p>That is not all as the former President was of the view that the Judiciary and the police are not serving the interest of the people and the state.<\/p>\n<p>In a tweet, Mr. Mahama said \u201cA judiciary owes it a duty to deliver impartial justice to the people; an Ombudsman owes a duty of care to the people to investigate all issues of malfeasance; a police force should exist to serve the people and not rein terror on them; an electoral commission owes \u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026 a sacred duty of care to the people by ensuring they are included in the electoral process &#038; not excluded in the interest of the incumbent admin; an independent media owes it to the people to not only report facts without bias, but to hold the govt of the day accountable.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Vincent Kubi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President John Dramani Mahama appears not pleased with the work output of some key institutions in the country as he wants them to do more. According to Mr. Mahama, a state institution such as the Electoral Commission (EC) owes it a sacred duty of care to the people by ensuring they are included in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1061685,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1219521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219521","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=1219521"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1219521\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1219521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1219521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1219521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}