{"id":271725,"date":"2016-11-25T17:25:25","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T17:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=271725"},"modified":"2016-11-25T17:25:25","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T17:25:25","slug":"ex-assembly-members-cry-over-unpaid-ex-gratia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=271725","title":{"rendered":"Ex-assembly members cry over unpaid ex-gratia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-three former Agona West Municipal Assembly Members have threatened to take legal action against the assembly for failing to pay them their ex-gratia for more than two years.<\/p>\n<p>The threat was issued at the third ordinary session of the assembly at Agona Swedru.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesman of the members, Mr Jude Baffoe, former Assemblyman for Agona Kwamang and a government appointee of the assembly, said all efforts made to force the assembly to pay the money had proven futile.<\/p>\n<p>He said the ex-members were looking forward to being paid an amount of GH\u20b5 1,500 each, approved by the Ministry of Local Government and Rural Development.<\/p>\n<p>He appealed to Mr Collins Dauda, the Minister of Local Government and Rural Development, to probe the delay of the payment.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Jonathan Benifo, the Acting Co-ordinating Director of the Assembly, responded that the assembly was struggling to mobilise money to pay the ex-members.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Twenty-three former Agona West Municipal Assembly Members have threatened to take legal action against the assembly for failing to pay them their ex-gratia for more than two years. The threat was issued at the third ordinary session of the assembly at Agona Swedru. A spokesman of the members, Mr Jude Baffoe, former Assemblyman for Agona [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":271726,"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],"tags":[4259,1598,5567,3],"class_list":["post-271725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-agona-swedru","tag-assembly-members","tag-ex-gratia","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271725","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=271725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271725\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=271725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}