{"id":976198,"date":"2022-02-04T14:07:23","date_gmt":"2022-02-04T14:07:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/04\/president-nana-addo-finally-breaks-silence-over-secondi-takoradi-mce-and-police-altercation\/"},"modified":"2022-02-04T14:07:23","modified_gmt":"2022-02-04T14:07:23","slug":"president-nana-addo-finally-breaks-silence-over-secondi-takoradi-mce-and-police-altercation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/04\/president-nana-addo-finally-breaks-silence-over-secondi-takoradi-mce-and-police-altercation\/","title":{"rendered":"President Nana Addo Finally Breaks Silence Over Secondi-Takoradi MCE And Police Altercation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<article>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/44c5b9be8471441c8d9b653a7a40e514\"\/><\/p>\n<p>A statement by the Local Govt ministry read \u201cwithout prejudice to the matter now before the out, the government takes a very dim view of the comments made by the Metropolitan Chief Executive during his exchanges with the police.<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: rgba(0, 0, 0, 0.87);\">Given this instance Akufo-Addo has given out directive to suspends Sekondi-Takoradi Municipal Chief Executive. <\/span><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Issah was on Thursday arrested by the Western Regional Police Command for an alleged motor traffic offense, verbal assault, and offensive conduct against a police officer who was performing his lawful duty.<\/p>\n<p>He was subsequently charged on three (3) counts of Assault of a public officer, Offensive conduct conducive to breaches of the peace, and disturbing the peace in a public place.<\/p>\n<p>Contrary to Sections 205, 207, and 298 respectively, of the Criminal and Other Offences Act of 1960, Act 29. He faced the court today but has denied all the 3 counts charges leveled against him.<\/p>\n<p>The directive stated that comments by the Municipal Chief Executive Officer is purely contrary to the belief of the government mandate in overseeing the peace and sanity in the country. <\/p>\n<p>Western Regional minister Mr Kwabena Okyere Darko-Mensah has been handed an additional interim supervisory role over the Secondi-Takoradi Metropolitan Assembly. <\/p>\n<p>Please help share like and follow me for more informative and insightful . <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/c2a6bc5c142446838aee6b985e1b24b0\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Content created and supplied by: BATACH (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 \/>\nCriminal<br \/>\nIssah<br \/>\nNana Addo<br \/>\nWestern Regional<br \/>\n<\/section>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A statement by the Local Govt ministry read \u201cwithout prejudice to the matter now before the out, the government takes a very dim view of the comments made by the Metropolitan Chief Executive during his exchanges with the police. Given this instance Akufo-Addo has given out directive to suspends Sekondi-Takoradi Municipal Chief Executive. Mr. Issah [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":976199,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-976198","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\/976198","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=976198"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/976198\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=976198"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=976198"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=976198"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}