{"id":140817,"date":"2015-08-05T13:03:55","date_gmt":"2015-08-05T13:03:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=140817"},"modified":"2015-08-05T12:05:17","modified_gmt":"2015-08-05T12:05:17","slug":"imanis-government-rating-cosmetic-former-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=140817","title":{"rendered":"IMANI\u2019s government rating &#8216;cosmetic&#8217; &#8211; Former Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A former Northern Regional Minister, Prince Imoro Andani has deflated IMANI Ghana\u2019s 47 percent government\u2019s rating on infrastructural development.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The policy think Tank scored the Mahama-Amissah Arthur led NDC administration 47 percent in line with the party\u2019s 2012 campaign manifesto.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;X8BVUIjgfkkktmaEnllkeCmpyGVIjlZc&#8221;]Several organizations and individuals including a Deputy Communication\u2019s Minister, Felix Ofosu Kwakye had divergent views on the rating.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prince Imoro Andani in a Citi News interview described it as cosmetic.<br \/>\nHe argued that was not a true reflection on the ground. \u201cIs about time that we distinguish between academic parameters and realities or realism: the academic parameters will show that so I have no quarrel with that but the truism is that what the manifesto achievements that they have made?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He asked, \u201cThey said they were raising us from poverty to a good level and are we not still poor?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He implied that the Mahama-Amissah Arthur led National Democratic Congress (NDC) administration had inflicted more economic hardships on the populace than ever.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe are poorer that we were before because the cedi that I could buy two tins of milk with today I cannot afford it: the cedi that could buy you keta school boys today will not give you that so IMANI can give those factors but the question is the NDC which is a social democratic party, is it showing us the social commitment, are we feeling it in our homes?\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/Citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A former Northern Regional Minister, Prince Imoro Andani has deflated IMANI Ghana\u2019s 47 percent government\u2019s rating on infrastructural development. The policy think Tank scored the Mahama-Amissah Arthur led NDC administration 47 percent in line with the party\u2019s 2012 campaign manifesto. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;X8BVUIjgfkkktmaEnllkeCmpyGVIjlZc&#8221;]Several organizations and individuals including a Deputy Communication\u2019s Minister, Felix Ofosu Kwakye had divergent [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":139448,"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":[],"tags":[38,17],"class_list":["post-140817","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140817","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=140817"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140817\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/139448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=140817"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=140817"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=140817"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}