{"id":133190,"date":"2015-07-10T07:41:25","date_gmt":"2015-07-10T07:41:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=133190"},"modified":"2015-07-10T07:41:25","modified_gmt":"2015-07-10T07:41:25","slug":"reassign-mark-woyongo-mp-to-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=133190","title":{"rendered":"Reassign Mark Woyongo &#8211; MP to Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Minority Spokesperson on Defense and Interior, William Boafo has asked asking President John Dramani Mahama to re-assign his Interior Minister Mark Woyongo over his \u201c<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/07\/09\/sack-mark-woyongo-now-group-to-mahama\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\">violence begets violence<\/span>\u201d<\/a><\/strong> comment.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Interior Minister has come under fire following his comment relating to the violence that marred the Talensi bye election on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;tOBOmk4Wj664d4qoGhY3eEOze5yLa3WF&#8221;]Though Mark Woyongo has defended his comments by claiming he was quoted out of context, William Boafo wants the President to reassign him from his present position as Interior Minister.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI will suggest that the President should find another ministry \u00a0for him. He is a good ministerial material but maybe not for where he is now as a result of the unfortunate casual remarks that he made,\u201d he explained.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Pressure group, Movement for Change has also asked President John Mahama <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/07\/09\/sack-mark-woyongo-now-group-to-mahama\/\" target=\"_blank\">to sack Mark Woyongo<\/a><\/strong><\/span> over the said comment to \u00a0justify the violent clashes that charaterised the by-election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A statement from the Movement of Change,\u00a0 said the comments from the minister \u201cclearly displayed that he is no lover of peace. Such an individual cannot and should not be trusted with a highly sensitive Ministry like that of the Interior.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Northern Regional Chairman of the opposition New Patriotic Party (NPP), Bugri Naabu has said Mark Woyongo has outlived his usefulness in office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to him, Mark Woyongo\u2019s comment has exposed his ineptitude.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cI condemn what happened in Talensi as the regional Chairman for Northern Region and I also condemn the Minister for Interior, Mr. Mark Woyongo: I was so disappointed and I wasn\u2019t happy to hear this come out from the minister\u2019s mouth,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin A. 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[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;tOBOmk4Wj664d4qoGhY3eEOze5yLa3WF&#8221;]Though Mark Woyongo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":133193,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-133190","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133190","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=133190"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133190\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/133193"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=133190"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=133190"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=133190"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}