{"id":238674,"date":"2016-08-12T15:11:37","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T15:11:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=238674"},"modified":"2016-08-12T15:11:37","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T15:11:37","slug":"mahama-increases-peacekeepers-allowance-by-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=238674","title":{"rendered":"Mahama increases peacekeepers’ allowance by $1"},"content":{"rendered":"

President John Mahama announced an\u00a0increase of the daily allowance for peacekeepers by a dollar at a durbar at\u00a0the\u00a0Burma camp in Accra on Thursday.<\/p>\n

Every Ghanaian peacekeeper on a United Nations (UN) mission is expected to benefit from the increase, and President Mahama expressed hope the increment would boost morale in the armed forces.<\/p>\n

[contextly_sidebar id=”1T0JEDge7gt3SIyg6cfIc2T05wh69J2y”]At the event, the President indicated that government\u00a0has over the years provided the needed resources for the retooling of the Ghana Armed Forces.<\/p>\n

He acknowledged that their \u201cmajor concern as far as external peace keeping duties have to do a lot with the prompt payment of allowances and also the quantity of allowances.\u201d<\/p>\n

The peacekeeping allowance from government had not seen any increment since 2009, in the first year of the late President John Atta Mills\u2019 tenure.<\/p>\n

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But this\u00a0US$1 increment brings to US$31 the allowance paid to peace keepers on daily basis.<\/p>\n

\u201cTogether with the armed forces council and the high command, we have decided to increase by one dollar a day the rate that is paid to peace keeping soldiers who go out,\u201d President Mahama said.<\/p>\n

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By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

President John Mahama announced an\u00a0increase of the daily allowance for peacekeepers by a dollar at a durbar at\u00a0the\u00a0Burma camp in Accra on Thursday. Every Ghanaian peacekeeper on a United Nations (UN) mission is expected to benefit from the increase, and President Mahama expressed hope the increment would boost morale in the armed forces. [contextly_sidebar id=”1T0JEDge7gt3SIyg6cfIc2T05wh69J2y”]At […]<\/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":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238674","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=238674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238674\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}