{"id":141963,"date":"2015-08-10T05:46:24","date_gmt":"2015-08-10T05:46:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=141963"},"modified":"2015-08-10T05:46:24","modified_gmt":"2015-08-10T05:46:24","slug":"ndc-executives-close-down-party-offices-in-eastern-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=141963","title":{"rendered":"NDC executives close down party\u00a0offices in Eastern Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The executives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Eastern region, \u00a0have directed that all constituency party offices in the region should \u00a0be closed down until \u00a0the District Chief Executive for\u00a0 Kwahu South, Joseph Omari\u00a0 is \u00a0removed from office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;CFqznDVEM8yLlveIFl7LNanmwct2bwYZ&#8221;]The DCE, Joseph Omari <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/08\/07\/ndc-executives-pepper-sprayed-by-dce\/\" target=\"_blank\">allegedly pepper-spraye<\/a>d<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0two of the party executives last Thursday when a misunderstanding ensued between them in his office.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The party officials visited the DCE to inquire about the visit of the Eastern Regional Minister, Antwi Bosiako-Sekyere to the area, but degenerated into violence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, the chairman \u00a0of the NDC in the Mpraeso constituency together with other executives <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/08\/07\/ndc-chairman-remanded-for-attacking-dce\/\" target=\"_blank\">have been arrested by the Police<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They were last Friday remanded into Police custody.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The DCE and his constituency branch executives reportedly been at loggerheads for some time now, a situation which they say, continues to affect development in the area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking on behalf of NDC party executives, Johnson Amoh, constituency chairman for Atiwa, called on top officials of the party to facilitate the release of the party executives or all offices will be continue to be locked.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They further accused the security services in the area of\u00a0 \u201ctwisting the arms of justice\u201d in the handling the issue.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The executives threatened to halt work on the party\u2019s \u201cagenda 50\/50\u201d which was launched last June.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Agenda 50\/50 is a campaign by the NDC to split the votes of the electorates in the region equally with the main opposition\u00a0party,\u00a0NPP in the 2016 elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By:\u00a0Kwame Botchway\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The executives of the National Democratic Congress (NDC) in the Eastern region, \u00a0have directed that all constituency party offices in the region should \u00a0be closed down until \u00a0the District Chief Executive for\u00a0 Kwahu South, Joseph Omari\u00a0 is \u00a0removed from office. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;CFqznDVEM8yLlveIFl7LNanmwct2bwYZ&#8221;]The DCE, Joseph Omari allegedly pepper-sprayed\u00a0two of the party executives last Thursday when a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":10355,"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":[38,17],"class_list":["post-141963","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141963","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=141963"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141963\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/10355"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=141963"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=141963"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=141963"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}