{"id":1246453,"date":"2022-11-08T11:02:03","date_gmt":"2022-11-08T11:02:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/08\/smart-slays-prez-akufo-addo-over-failed-keta-port-project\/"},"modified":"2022-11-08T11:02:03","modified_gmt":"2022-11-08T11:02:03","slug":"smart-slays-prez-akufo-addo-over-failed-keta-port-project","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/08\/smart-slays-prez-akufo-addo-over-failed-keta-port-project\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart \u2018slays\u2019 Prez. Akufo-Addo over failed Keta Port project"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><strong>Captain Smart is furious that all Presidents of the Fourth Republic have abandoned the Volta Region over the years, and he specifically asks President Akufo-Addo why he is &#8220;joking with the people of the Volta Region.&#8221;<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His vitriol stems from the Keta Port Project, which is home to snakes after the Finance Minister issued a $500 million bond for the project.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the government claims to have spent GH4.1 million on the project, despite the fact that the entire structure is a one-story C-shaped container abandoned in the jungle to house reptiles.<\/p>\n<p>The Maakye crew visited the site during the Anlo Hogbetsotso Festival and discovered that the project had not been upgraded since the containers were painted a few months earlier.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to its formation, the project had a Managing Director who purportedly received a monthly remuneration of GH\u00a287,000.00.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, 30 other persons have been hired to work under the MD, making a total of 31 workers while the project is not in operation.<\/p>\n<p>The individuals have been receiving salaries since October 2019, prompting Captain Smart to call the development an insult to Anlo state&#8217;s Awmefia, Togbe Sri III.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/12580da840a04f768ed9c5f47d93af47\"\/>&#8220;This is a slap in the face to Togbe Sri III and the entire Volta region.&#8221; How can you be this cruel, this heartless? We can import snakes for you if you want to raise them,&#8221; he raged.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: SayProsper01 (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\">\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Captain Smart is furious that all Presidents of the Fourth Republic have abandoned the Volta Region over the years, and he specifically asks President Akufo-Addo why he is &#8220;joking with the people of the Volta Region.&#8221; His vitriol stems from the Keta Port Project, which is home to snakes after the Finance Minister issued a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1246454,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[648,2130,1717,2449,6583,954,11419,839],"class_list":["post-1246453","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories","tag-akufoaddo","tag-failed","tag-keta","tag-port","tag-prez","tag-project","tag-slays","tag-smart"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246453","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=1246453"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1246453\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1246453"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1246453"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1246453"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}