{"id":28154,"date":"2014-06-29T12:00:14","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T12:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=28154"},"modified":"2014-06-29T07:52:09","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T07:52:09","slug":"elvis-must-be-sacked-not-re-assigned-afag","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=28154","title":{"rendered":"Elvis must be sacked not re-assigned \u2013 AFAG"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pressure Group, Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG), has described as \u2018window shopping\u2019 the recent reshuffle by the President.<\/p>\n<p>The President, John Mahama on Saturday announced the re-assignment of Youth and Sports Minister, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah and his Deputy, Joseph Yammin.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ankrah moves to the Presidency as a Minister of State while Yammin moves to the Ashanti Region as Deputy Regional Minister.<\/p>\n<p>The re-assignment comes on the back of the Black Stars abysmal performance at the ongoing FIFA World Cup in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, the Director of Operations for AFAG, Abu Ramadan said the President must let Elvis Afriyie Ankrah account for every penny spent in Brazil before taking his new post.<\/p>\n<p>He was fully convinced that Ghanaians will appreciate it if a detailed account is given on happenings in Brazil.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, Afriyie Ankrah\u2019s incompetence has been exposed therefore, it raises a lot of questions as to why he was re-assigned and not dismissed entirely.<\/p>\n<p>He asked: \u201cWhat business has Elvis Afriyie Ankrah got doing with the President that the President can\u2019t let him leave government?\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ramadan said his re-assignment will only give him the platform \u201cto continue this sort of attitude and incompetence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The AFAG executive told <strong>Citi News,<\/strong> President Mahama is losing sight of his priorities and the vital things which worry Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen the country is in crisis and the country needs a solution, the President comes to give appointment that has absolutely nothing to do with the crisis we are facing,\u201d he remarked.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osamidan\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @osamidan<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![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>Pressure Group, Alliance for Accountable Governance (AFAG), has described as \u2018window shopping\u2019 the recent reshuffle by the President. The President, John Mahama on Saturday announced the re-assignment of Youth and Sports Minister, Elvis Afriyie Ankrah and his Deputy, Joseph Yammin. Mr. Ankrah moves to the Presidency as a Minister of State while Yammin moves to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":28155,"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":[43,38],"class_list":["post-28154","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28154","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=28154"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/28154\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/28155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=28154"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=28154"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=28154"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}