{"id":980636,"date":"2022-02-07T22:10:44","date_gmt":"2022-02-07T22:10:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/07\/akufo-addo-is-now-ghanas-constitution\/"},"modified":"2022-02-07T22:10:44","modified_gmt":"2022-02-07T22:10:44","slug":"akufo-addo-is-now-ghanas-constitution","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/02\/07\/akufo-addo-is-now-ghanas-constitution\/","title":{"rendered":"Akufo-Addo is now Ghana\u2019s constitution"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"426\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Screen-Shot-2020-12-08-at-3.17.27-PM-696x426.png\"   alt=\"L-R: Nana Addo and Asiedu Nketia\" title=\"L-R: Nana Addo and Asiedu Nketia\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">L-R: Nana Addo and Asiedu Nketia <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has said President Nana 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 President Akufo-Addo is part of the reason the lawmaking Chamber has seen utter chaos and disorder in the eighth Parliament.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>His comment comes in the wake of the violence that has characterised the E-Levy passage in parliament.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo long as impunity will not stop, resistance has been imposed on us as a duty.<\/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<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"A_95HaA02YM\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Residents forced to share the fungal-contaminated source of water with animals \u2013 Adom TV (7-2-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/A_95HaA02YM?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>L-R: Nana Addo and Asiedu Nketia The General Secretary of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia, has said President Nana 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 government. \u201cIt appears we don\u2019t have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":980637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-980636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980636","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=980636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/980636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=980636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=980636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=980636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}