{"id":187420,"date":"2016-02-05T17:23:03","date_gmt":"2016-02-05T17:23:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=187420"},"modified":"2016-02-05T17:23:03","modified_gmt":"2016-02-05T17:23:03","slug":"dzifa-attivor-hands-over-to-fiifi-kwetey-as-transport-minister-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=187420","title":{"rendered":"Dzifa Attivor hands over to Fiifi Kwetey as Transport Minister [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Member of Parliament for Ketu South in the Volta Region, Fiifi Fiavi Franklin Kwetey, has officially taken\u00a0responsibility of\u00a0the Ministry of Transport .<\/p>\n<p>At a short ceremony at the Ministry&#8217;s conference room on Friday, \u00a0Dzifa Aku Attivor, the immediate past Minister, handed over to Mr. Kwetey in the presence of Joyce Bawa Mogtari, the Deputy Minister among others.<\/p>\n<p>Fiifi Kwetey was appointed to the ministry in the President\u2019s New Year reshuffle.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-187426 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Fiifi-Kwetey.jpg\" alt=\"Fiifi Kwetey\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;LLvKUiqGkBCElrElYXvX48ovNVbjN9h0&#8243;]His appointment became necessary following Dzifa Attivor\u2019s resignation.<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Attivor resigned due to the public outcry over the use of Ghc3.6 million of Ghana\u2019s oil revenue to re-brand 116 buses belonging to the Metro Mass Transit Limited (MMT).<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-187424 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/Fiifi-Kwetey-1.jpg\" alt=\"Fiifi Kwetey 1\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A report of an investigation into the contract for the re-branding shows that the amount was bloated and that some persons\u00a0had acted illegally causing the state to overpay Smarttys, the company that carried out the branding.<\/p>\n<p>The company has since been asked to refund an amount of Ghc1.5 million to the state.<br \/>\n&#8211;<br \/>\nBy: Ebenezer Afanyi Dadzie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AfanyiDadzie\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AfanyiDadzie<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Member of Parliament for Ketu South in the Volta Region, Fiifi Fiavi Franklin Kwetey, has officially taken\u00a0responsibility of\u00a0the Ministry of Transport . At a short ceremony at the Ministry&#8217;s conference room on Friday, \u00a0Dzifa Aku Attivor, the immediate past Minister, handed over to Mr. Kwetey in the presence of Joyce Bawa Mogtari, the Deputy Minister [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187420","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=187420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=187420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=187420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=187420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}