{"id":744887,"date":"2022-01-11T15:27:59","date_gmt":"2022-01-11T15:27:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/youve-become-miserable-like-the-black-stars-budget-captain-smart-to-akufo-addo-government\/"},"modified":"2022-01-11T15:27:59","modified_gmt":"2022-01-11T15:27:59","slug":"youve-become-miserable-like-the-black-stars-budget-captain-smart-to-akufo-addo-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/11\/youve-become-miserable-like-the-black-stars-budget-captain-smart-to-akufo-addo-government\/","title":{"rendered":"You\u2019ve become miserable like the Black Stars budget \u2013 Captain Smart to Akufo-Addo government"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div style=\"-webkit-user-select: none; -webkit-touch-callout: none; -moz-user-select: none; -ms-user-select: none; user-select: none;\">\n<p style=\"clear:right\" id=\"article-123\"><b>GACL cost of Christmas decorations at KIA questioned <\/b><\/p>\n<p>Captain Smart slams Adom-Otchere for defending Christmas decorations at KIA<\/p>\n<p>Captain Smart descends on government over hardship in Ghana<\/p>\n<p>Host of Onua Maakye on Onua TV, Captain Smart, has likened the government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to the budget of Ghana\u2019s senior national football team, describing it as miserable.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Monday, January 10, 2021, segment of Fa Be Woso on his morning show, Captain Smart questioned the cost of the Ghana Airport Company\u2019s Christmas decorations which has been a topic of discussion in the past few days.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIs Christmas tree what Ghana needs? At any juncture in life, we have what you call critical needs; at this point at Ghana\u2019s airport, is a Christmas tree what we need? We got there three days ago, and the Christmas tree looked sorry than the government. If we are going by what you are telling us, do you mean what we saw there cost GHC34,000?<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYes, we are celebrating Christmas, and we need to put up decorations, but must we do it in a way that leads someone to question the leadership of the country? You do things miserably like Black Stars budget,\u201d Captain Smart lamented.<\/p>\n<p>According to Captain Smart, Paul Adom-Otchere\u2019s defence of the government is not tenable looking at the hardship Ghanaians face.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cLet me tell journalists in this country, you will get a government that will give you money, but you will account for it one day. You will get a government to give you money, so you sit on TV pass irritating comments even when Ghanaians are experiencing hardship. Everybody is suffering, Dr Bawumia told us and gave us a new rhyme that \u2018nurses are suffering, painters are suffering, everybody is suffering.\u2019 Now we are no more suffering, we are dying, and Bawumia is aware; Nana Addo is aware. But the truth is Nana Addo is wicked,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Following reports of the GACL\u2019s Christmas decorations cost, Paul Adom-Otchere came out to defend the expenditure describing it as the least expensive done since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>According to the GACL board chair, the state agency contracted two entities who provided their services at the cost of GHC34,000 and GHC85,000, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the purpose of the Christmas decorations at the airport was \u201cto create a festive atmosphere for passengers and their families coming into the country.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><b>Watch video below:<\/b><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/video.php?height=314&amp;href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FOnuaTVGhana%2Fvideos%2F1299836437197259%2F&amp;show_text=false&amp;width=560&amp;t=0\" width=\"560\" height=\"314\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>GACL cost of Christmas decorations at KIA questioned Captain Smart slams Adom-Otchere for defending Christmas decorations at KIA Captain Smart descends on government over hardship in Ghana Host of Onua Maakye on Onua TV, Captain Smart, has likened the government of President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo to the budget of Ghana\u2019s senior national football team, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":212583,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-744887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744887","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=744887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/744887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=744887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=744887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=744887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}