{"id":231933,"date":"2024-10-14T09:04:24","date_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/10\/14\/akufo-addo-never-in-the-history-of-this-country-has-things-been-this-bad\/"},"modified":"2024-10-14T09:04:24","modified_gmt":"2024-10-14T09:04:24","slug":"akufo-addo-never-in-the-history-of-this-country-has-things-been-this-bad","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2024\/10\/14\/akufo-addo-never-in-the-history-of-this-country-has-things-been-this-bad\/","title":{"rendered":"Akufo-Addo; Never in the history of this country has things been this bad"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/10\/3efa1894ba901718aac54836afa52645\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\"><\/div>\n<p>Let me begin this article with the words of Abraham Lincoln, the first president of the United States of America (USA) \u201cTo sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of Men\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I am not old enough to have lived through the first republic, led by Dr Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, neither the second republic led by one of the founding fathers of the United Party today New Patriotic Party tradition, Dr Abrefa Busia, nor the third republic led by Dr Hilla Liman.<\/p>\n<p><button><span>See More<!-- --> <\/span><span>\u276f<\/span><\/button><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Let me begin this article with the words of Abraham Lincoln, the first president of the United States of America (USA) \u201cTo sin by silence when they should protest makes cowards of Men\u201d I am not old enough to have lived through the first republic, led by Dr Osagyefo Dr Kwame Nkrumah, neither the second [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":231934,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-231933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-top-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.8 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Akufo-Addo; 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