{"id":980386,"date":"2022-02-07T14:33:58","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T14:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/07\/ghanas-constitution-now-is-akufo-addo-general-mosquito\/"},"modified":"2022-02-07T14:33:58","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T14:33:58","slug":"ghanas-constitution-now-is-akufo-addo-general-mosquito","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/07\/ghanas-constitution-now-is-akufo-addo-general-mosquito\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana\u2019s constitution now is Akufo-Addo \u2013 General Mosquito"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">Politics of Monday,  7 February 2022<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>kasapafmonline.com<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanaweb.com\/imagelib\/pics\/417\/41792588.295.jpg\" alt=\"Asiedu Nketia condemns current government\" title=\"Asiedu Nketia condemns current government\" width=\"295\" height=\"186\"> <span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Asiedu Nketia condemns current government<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div>\n<p id=\"article-123\">The General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah has said President Akufo-Addo\u2019s regime is a challenge to Ghana\u2019s democratic system.<\/p>\n<p>He berated President Akufo-Addo for turning himself into a dictator and literally ditching the constitution in his government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt appears we don\u2019t have any constitution in Ghana now; the only constitution we have is Akufo-Addo. He takes decisions without recourse to the constitution. The constitution is there to guide our leaders so that they don\u2019t become monsters, but Akufo-Addo is largely pulling us out of the democratic system. We\u2019ll resist it.\u201d he told the Ashanti regional youth wing of the NDC in Kumasi on Sunday, February 6, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>He believes Akufo-Addo is part of the reason the lawmaking chamber has seen utter chaos and disorder in the eighth parliament.<\/p>\n<p>His comment comes in the wake of the violence that has characterised the E-Levy passage in parliament.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC) has said that \u201cso long as impunity will not stop, resistance has been imposed on us as a duty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if a Deputy Speaker who is supposed to be a referee assumes the role of a player on the field and decides to be part of penalty kicks in a game, you don\u2019t hesitate to give him some slaps for him to behave with the utmost propriety,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Politics of Monday, 7 February 2022 Source: kasapafmonline.com Asiedu Nketia condemns current government The General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketiah has said President Akufo-Addo\u2019s regime is a challenge to Ghana\u2019s democratic system. He berated President Akufo-Addo for turning himself into a dictator and literally ditching the constitution in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980386","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980386","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=980386"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980386\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980386"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980386"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980386"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}