{"id":973518,"date":"2022-02-02T11:39:19","date_gmt":"2022-02-02T11:39:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/02\/ghanaians-massively-react-as-prez-addo-reminds-them-about-critical-govt-meeting-today\/"},"modified":"2022-02-02T11:39:19","modified_gmt":"2022-02-02T11:39:19","slug":"ghanaians-massively-react-as-prez-addo-reminds-them-about-critical-govt-meeting-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/02\/ghanaians-massively-react-as-prez-addo-reminds-them-about-critical-govt-meeting-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghanaians Massively React As Prez. Addo Reminds Them About Critical Gov&#8217;t Meeting Today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p>The Electronic Transaction Levy (E-Levy) has received massive opposition from Ghanaians most especially from the Minority Caucus of Ghana\u2019s Parliament. To explain to the Ghanaian populace, the benefits of the implementation of this policy, the government through the Finance Minister, Hon. Ken Ofori-Atta is organizing a series of town hall meetings. The meeting is also meant to answer questions that are still on the mind of Ghanaians about the levy.<\/p>\n<p>A new town hall meeting on the E-Levy is set to come off today in the Western Region. The event would take place at the Sekondi Youth Centre at 2:00 PM. Prominent members and leaders of the ruling New Patriotic Party would be present to see to the success of today\u2019s meeting.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/59c990fcb63f414f882c8e78fe3ba3df\"\/><\/p>\n<p>President Akufo-Addo took to his Twitter handle to remind Ghanaians about today\u2019s critical meeting. Most Ghanaians expressed their opinions under the President\u2019s tweet. One account user remained adamant calling for the scrapping of the controversial levy. Others are also looking forward to today&#8217;s meeting eagerly. Check below for some of the comments from Ghanaians:<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/ef36da52a6294195a174831d00a8f258\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/02ec2d8bbf0a4d048dc405d60c7941b6\"\/><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/4c65ff3d6e474fc190a02eb28de0a955\"\/><\/p>\n<p>With the reduction in the E-Levy percentage to 1.5%, do you support its implementation? Let us know your thoughts by leaving all your comments below. To receive newly published articles, hit the FOLLOW button. LIKE and SHARE the article.<\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: JNTurkson (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 \/>\nE-Levy<br \/>\nGhanaian<br \/>\nGhanaians<br \/>\nKen Ofori-Atta<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Electronic Transaction Levy (E-Levy) has received massive opposition from Ghanaians most especially from the Minority Caucus of Ghana\u2019s Parliament. To explain to the Ghanaian populace, the benefits of the implementation of this policy, the government through the Finance Minister, Hon. Ken Ofori-Atta is organizing a series of town hall meetings. The meeting is also [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":973519,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-973518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973518","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=973518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/973518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=973518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=973518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=973518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}