{"id":1252416,"date":"2022-11-17T09:16:15","date_gmt":"2022-11-17T09:16:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/17\/ken-ofori-atta-dozes-off-on-national-tv-ghanaians-call-for-his-immediate-sack\/"},"modified":"2022-11-17T09:16:15","modified_gmt":"2022-11-17T09:16:15","slug":"ken-ofori-atta-dozes-off-on-national-tv-ghanaians-call-for-his-immediate-sack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/17\/ken-ofori-atta-dozes-off-on-national-tv-ghanaians-call-for-his-immediate-sack\/","title":{"rendered":"Ken Ofori Atta dozes off on national Tv; Ghanaians call for his immediate sack \u00bb \u2122"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div data-td-block-uid=\"tdi_33\">\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<h2><strong>After a video surfaced showing Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta apparently nodding off in parliament, demands for his resignation became louder.<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>The video of the finance minister fighting off sleepiness at all costs quickly went viral.<\/p>\n<p>A lot of people think a finance minister who sleeps in front of the national news shouldn\u2019t be in his post. Proposals for the President to dismiss him have already surfaced.<\/p>\n<p>READ ALSO:\u00a0Ofori Atta is the only Finance Minister since oil production to squander \u00a212.4m \u2013 Ablakwa<\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p>Others disagree, arguing that a finance minister\u2019s drowsiness is not evidence of incompetence and hence should never be the reason for his dismissal.<\/p>\n<p><strong>VIDEO BELOW:<\/strong><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"instagram-media\" style=\"background: #FFF; border: 0; border-radius: 3px; box-shadow: 0 0 1px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.5),0 1px 10px 0 rgba(0,0,0,0.15); margin: 1px; max-width: 540px; min-width: 326px; padding: 0; width: calc(100% - 2px);\" data-instgrm-captioned=\"\" data-instgrm-permalink=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/reel\/ClDmdfBjpgJ\/?utm_source=ig_embed&amp;utm_campaign=loading\" data-instgrm-version=\"14\">\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"td-adspot-title\">&#8211;  &#8211;<\/span><br \/>\n<!-- ResponsiveAll --><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer src=\"https:\/\/platform.instagram.com\/en_US\/embeds.js\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8211; &#8211; After a video surfaced showing Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta apparently nodding off in parliament, demands for his resignation became louder. The video of the finance minister fighting off sleepiness at all costs quickly went viral. A lot of people think a finance minister who sleeps in front of the national news shouldn\u2019t be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1252419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[4075,160,29004,834,2087,1093,3653,394],"class_list":["post-1252416","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-atta","tag-call","tag-dozes","tag-ghanaians","tag-ken","tag-national","tag-ofori","tag-sack"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252416","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=1252416"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1252416\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1252416"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1252416"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1252416"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}