{"id":270772,"date":"2016-11-22T19:08:23","date_gmt":"2016-11-22T19:08:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=270772"},"modified":"2016-11-22T19:08:23","modified_gmt":"2016-11-22T19:08:23","slug":"december-7-not-holiday-interior-ministry","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=270772","title":{"rendered":"December 7 not holiday &#8211; Interior Ministry"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Prosper Bani, the Minister for The Interior, has said December 7, the day set for Ghana\u2019s General Election is not a holiday.<\/p>\n<p>He said except for security personnel who would be given time for their assignments on the day, especially those travelling, the Election Day would remain a working day for public servants.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bani said this when he addressed the Volta Regional Security Council and the Regional Election Taskforce during a working visit to the Region.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;iNsEbOK48QQIz0wxZIfiu3v5yetW5P3P&#8221;]The visit was to afford the Minister the opportunity to assess the preparedness of the Election Taskforce ahead of the elections.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Government expected all heads of institutions to \u201cprovide an enabling environment\u201d for workers to exercise their franchise.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Bani reassured of the preparedness of the security services to ensure event-free polls and warned against hate speeches.<\/p>\n<p>He said political parties and individuals engaging in hate speeches would soon be made to face the law.<\/p>\n<p>Mr John Kudalor, the Inspector General of Police, tasked the Police to make all hotspots an \u201cenabling environment\u201d and ensure that all registered Ghanaians were allowed to vote.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr Prosper Bani, the Minister for The Interior, has said December 7, the day set for Ghana\u2019s General Election is not a holiday. He said except for security personnel who would be given time for their assignments on the day, especially those travelling, the Election Day would remain a working day for public servants. Mr [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":60623,"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":[6848,3,13840,4595,11715],"class_list":["post-270772","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories","tag-december-7","tag-ghana-news","tag-holiday","tag-interior-ministry","tag-prosper-bani"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270772","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=270772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/270772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/60623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=270772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=270772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=270772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}