{"id":184193,"date":"2016-01-24T17:06:19","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T17:06:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=184193"},"modified":"2016-01-24T17:06:19","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T17:06:19","slug":"defer-your-academic-courses-mahama-to-mmdces","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=184193","title":{"rendered":"Defer your academic courses &#8211; Mahama to MMDCEs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President John Dramani Mahama has directed all Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMCEs) pursuing academic courses while in office to defer such programmes with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A statement issued in Accra on Thursday by Mr Collins Duada, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development asked the Regional Ministers to inform all MMDCES in their regions to strictly comply with the directive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;iiO9poLrw6O3O0IWCFKrNtQmwB0u2g2k&#8221;]A Ghana News Agency report said the statement warned the affected MMDCEs that they would \u201chave themselves to blame\u201d if they\u00a0flout the directive.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A\u00a0number of these MMDCEs including other ministers have often been accused of shirking their official duties because of their other engagements.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">However, it is unclear whether their pursuit of\u00a0\u00a0higher education\u00a0is\u00a0affecting their work\u00a0with the government.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A lot of the officials\u00a0usually enroll in institutions like the Local Government Institute and the Ghana Institute of Management and Public Administration (GIMPA).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Presidency strips Ministers of \u2018first class\u2019 travels<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Government in December last year directed ministers who embark on official foreign travels on first class tickets to <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/12\/21\/presidency-strips-ministers-of-first-class-travels\/\" target=\"_blank\">stop with immediate effect<\/a><\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>Government also directed all its ministers to cut down on foreign travels in a bid to curtail government spending.<\/p>\n<p>The directive was issued in a letter from the office of the president and signed by the Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah.<\/p>\n<p>Government in the statement said \u201cit is needless to emphasise the serious impact the current frequent travels abroad by Ministers and Public officials are having on government finances,\u201d he said.<\/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>President John Dramani Mahama has directed all Metropolitan, Municipal and District Chief Executives (MMCEs) pursuing academic courses while in office to defer such programmes with immediate effect. A statement issued in Accra on Thursday by Mr Collins Duada, Minister of Local Government and Rural Development asked the Regional Ministers to inform all MMDCES in their [&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-184193","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\/184193","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=184193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}