{"id":1240483,"date":"2022-11-01T10:32:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-01T10:32:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/01\/prof-gyampo-akufo-addo-should-stop-transporting-his-chair-in-fully-fueled-air-conditioned-v8\/"},"modified":"2022-11-01T10:32:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-01T10:32:51","slug":"prof-gyampo-akufo-addo-should-stop-transporting-his-chair-in-fully-fueled-air-conditioned-v8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/01\/prof-gyampo-akufo-addo-should-stop-transporting-his-chair-in-fully-fueled-air-conditioned-v8\/","title":{"rendered":"Prof Gyampo &#8211; Akufo-Addo Should Stop Transporting His Chair In Fully Fueled Air Conditioned V8"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>A Political Science lecturer at the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Gyampo has asked President Akufo-Addo to stop transporting his chair in an air conditioned V8 to show that he is willing to sacrifice in this economic crisis.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/c8b13dd38351489d987c97430ed83057\"\/><\/p>\n<p>In a post shared on his official Facebook page on Tuesday, 1st November 2022, Prof Gyampo wrote;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;A simple test of the President\u2019s willingness to sacrifice in this crisis, is not to announce a 30% cut in the salaries of appointees which is difficult to verify, but to stop transporting his chair in a fully fueled air conditioned V8, a gesture that all can see.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The comments of the Outspoken Prof Gyampo comes in wake of economic crisis facing Ghana which caused President Akufo-Addo to address the nation on the economy. Some people usually criticize the President for devoting a full vehicle to carry the chair he sits on. <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/ba27d0bb91bc442790d1624a9e36deaf\"\/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reactions<\/strong> <\/p>\n<p>&#8220;NPP supporters who don&#8217;t even understand EUROBOND will come n defend y the chair must be in the V8.&#8221; A user wrote.<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/53aae8e0cacf4c3b9558070e716fce41\"\/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It&#8217;s intriguing, the 30% cut has been there long before but didn&#8217;t realize any results. Instead of him to announce a cut down in the ministries to its original number, that could safe us fortune, he is still day dreaming.&#8221; A user commented.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: Currentworldnews (via  Opera<br \/>\nNews )<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<p class=\"copyright hide\">\n<span class=\"content\">    ,  .   ,     .       () , , , , , , , , .      \/ ,  and\/or  .     ,  , and\/or  ,      and\/or     <\/span><br \/>\n<span class=\"see-more\"><\/span>\n<\/p>\n<section class=\"tags\">\nAkufo-Addo<br \/>\nGyampo<br \/>\nRansford Gyampo<br \/>\nUniversity of Ghana<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Political Science lecturer at the University of Ghana, Professor Ransford Gyampo has asked President Akufo-Addo to stop transporting his chair in an air conditioned V8 to show that he is willing to sacrifice in this economic crisis. In a post shared on his official Facebook page on Tuesday, 1st November 2022, Prof Gyampo wrote; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1240484,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[99,648,3740,28331,11458,929,9692,2280,534,19779],"class_list":["post-1240483","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-air","tag-akufoaddo","tag-chair","tag-conditioned","tag-fueled","tag-fully","tag-gyampo","tag-prof","tag-stop","tag-transporting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240483","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=1240483"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1240483\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1240483"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1240483"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1240483"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}