{"id":1234169,"date":"2022-10-25T15:58:31","date_gmt":"2022-10-25T15:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/25\/breaking-sack-ken-ofori-atta-now-majority-tells-president\/"},"modified":"2022-10-25T15:58:31","modified_gmt":"2022-10-25T15:58:31","slug":"breaking-sack-ken-ofori-atta-now-majority-tells-president","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/25\/breaking-sack-ken-ofori-atta-now-majority-tells-president\/","title":{"rendered":"Breaking: Sack Ken Ofori-Atta Now- Majority Tells President"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Majority Caucus in Parliament is calling on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to sack all the ministers at the Ministry of Finance with immeidate effect.<\/p>\n<p>They want Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta and the Minister of State at the Finance Ministry, Charles Adu Boahen remove from their posts.<\/p>\n<p>The Members of Parliament (MPs) who belongs to the ruling New Patriotic Party threatened to boycott government business if the President fails to sack them.<\/p>\n<p>According to the lawmakers, numbering about 80, led by MP for Asante Akyem North, Andy Appiah-Kubi who addressed a news conference on Tuesday October 25, 2022 to pressure the President to remove the ministers and their deputies.<\/p>\n<p>Leader of the group said they will not participate in the upcoming budget hearing if those people remain at posts.<\/p>\n<p>He stated that the request has been forwarded to the Presidency through the leadership but to no avail hence the decision to go public.<\/p>\n<p>According to them, their sentiments reflect the position of the NPP caucus in the House.<\/p>\n<p>This has been a unanimous call for the opposition legislators who have constantly called for the Minister\u2019s head with some civil society organisations joining the fray at a point.<\/p>\n<p>More soon\u2026.<\/p>\n<p><strong>By Vincent Kubi<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0 Majority Caucus in Parliament is calling on President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to sack all the ministers at the Ministry of Finance with immeidate effect. They want Finance Minister, Ken Ofori-Atta and the Minister of State at the Finance Ministry, Charles Adu Boahen remove from their posts. The Members of Parliament (MPs) who belongs [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1234171,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1234169","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\/1234169","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=1234169"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1234169\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1234169"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1234169"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1234169"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}