{"id":182831,"date":"2016-01-19T06:35:31","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T06:35:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=182831"},"modified":"2016-01-19T06:35:31","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T06:35:31","slug":"mahama-reshuffles-team-prosper-bani-fiifi-kwetey-get-new-appointments-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=182831","title":{"rendered":"Mahama reshuffles team; Prosper Bani, Fiifi Kwetey get new appointments"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The former Chief of Staff,\u00a0Prosper Douglas Bani has been named\u00a0Minister Designate for Interior in President Mahama&#8217;s first reshuffle list for 2016.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Prosper Bani was <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/02\/16\/mahama-fires-prosper-bani-appoints-julius-debrah-as-chief-of-staff\/\" target=\"_blank\">relieved of his post<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/span>in February 2015\u00a0and was replaced with Julius Debrah.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, Fiifi Kwetey, Minister for\u00a0Agriculture, has been appointed as the Minister Designate for Transport to replace Dzifa Ativor who resigned from her position on December 23, 2015 over the <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/12\/23\/transport-minister-resigns-over-bus-re-branding-scandal\/\" target=\"_blank\">controversial\u00a0GHc3.6 million\u00a0bus branding saga<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Northern Regional Minister, Alhaji Mohammed Muniru Limuna also takes over as the new Minister for Food &amp; Agriculture.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_119215\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-119215\" style=\"width: 800px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-119215\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/alhaji-limuna.jpg\" alt=\"Alhaji Limuna Mohammed-Muniru\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/alhaji-limuna.jpg 800w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/05\/alhaji-limuna-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-119215\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Alhaji Limuna Mohammed-Muniru<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President John Dramani Mahama has also appointed Mr. Kenneth Wujangi, a Management and Integrated Rural Development Specialist as a Deputy Chief of Staff (Operations) at the Flagstaff House.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A statement signed by Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah, also announced the nomination of the following as Ministers of State:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1. Edwin Nii Lante Vanderpuye (MP)- Minister Designate for Youth &amp; Sports<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_182845\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-182845\" style=\"width: 329px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-182845\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/download-2.jpg\" alt=\"download\" width=\"329\" height=\"335\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-182845\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Nii Lante Vanderpuye<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">2. John Alexander Ackon- Minister Designate for the Ashanti Region<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_182846\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-182846\" style=\"width: 713px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-182846\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/John-Alexander-Ackon.jpg\" alt=\"John Alexander Ackon\" width=\"713\" height=\"475\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-182846\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">John Alexander Ackon<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">3. Kweku Ricketts Hagan (MP)- Minister Designate for the Central Region<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_166742\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-166742\" style=\"width: 563px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-166742 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/rickett-hagan_563x400.jpg\" alt=\"rickett hagan_563x400\" width=\"563\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/rickett-hagan_563x400.jpg 563w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/11\/rickett-hagan_563x400-300x213.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 563px) 100vw, 563px\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-166742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Kweku Ricketts Hagan<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">4. Mavis Ama Frimpong- Minister Designate for the Eastern Region<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_182863\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-182863\" style=\"width: 535px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-182863 \" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Mavis-Ama-Frimpong.jpg\" alt=\"Mavis Ama Frimpong\" width=\"535\" height=\"312\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-182863\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mavis Ama Frimpong<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">5. Abdallah Abubakari- Minister Designate for the Northern Region<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">6. Albert Abongo (MP)- Minister Designate for the Upper East Region<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_172184\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-172184\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-172184 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/albert-abongo.jpg\" alt=\"Albert Abongo \" width=\"600\" height=\"505\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-172184\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Albert Abongo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The following have also been nominated as Deputy Ministers of State:<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">1. Andy Osei Okrah &#8211; Deputy Minister Designate for the Ashanti Region<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_182956\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-182956\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-182956 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/01\/Andy-Osei-Okrah.jpg\" alt=\"Andy Osei Okrah\" width=\"640\" height=\"473\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-182956\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Andy Osei Okrah<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">2. Robert Baba Kuganab-Lem- Deputy Minister Designate for the Upper East Region<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Chief of Staff,\u00a0Prosper Douglas Bani has been named\u00a0Minister Designate for Interior in President Mahama&#8217;s first reshuffle list for 2016. Prosper Bani was relieved of his post\u00a0in February 2015\u00a0and was replaced with Julius Debrah. Meanwhile, Fiifi Kwetey, Minister for\u00a0Agriculture, has been appointed as the Minister Designate for Transport to replace Dzifa Ativor who resigned [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"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":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182831","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=182831"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182831\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}