{"id":328358,"date":"2017-06-14T15:57:48","date_gmt":"2017-06-14T15:57:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=328358"},"modified":"2017-06-14T15:57:48","modified_gmt":"2017-06-14T15:57:48","slug":"savelugu-mce-assumes-office-amid-heavy-security","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=328358","title":{"rendered":"Savelugu MCE assumes office amid heavy security"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Savelugu\/Nantong Municipal Chief Executive, Hajia Ayishetu Seidu has today [Wednesday] been officially inducted into office under heavy security guard.<\/p>\n<p>A joint task-force from the Regional Security Council and the Municipal Security Committee escorted Hajia Ayishetu to her\u00a0office.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;YD6aRinE6VNq1piCdo4BcKrkK3r5loOK&#8221;]This is to enable her assume her lawful civic position as the Savelugu\/Nantong Municipal Chief Executive.<\/p>\n<p>The decision was arrived at after several hours of deliberations on the political stalemate over protests against her appointment and subsequent confirmation.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Citifmonline.com<\/strong> checks revealed that, there will be a permanent joint military and police rapid response squad at the precincts of the Municipal Assembly complex.<\/p>\n<p>The Regional Minister, Salifu Saeed and his Deputy, Solomon Boa, were not part of the team that inducted her into office.<\/p>\n<p>The Assembly complex for some time had been under lock and key because core staff were frightened.<\/p>\n<p>It would be recalled that some NPP executives in both the Savelugu and the Nantong constituencies joined forces with some angry party youth in protest against Hajia Ayishetu Seidu\u2019s portfolio.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_316508\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-316508\" style=\"width: 630px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-316508\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/05\/Savelugu-protests-2.jpg\" alt=\"Protests over the MCE nominee in Savelugu\" width=\"630\" height=\"473\" \/><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-316508\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protests over the MCE nominee in Savelugu<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Three demonstrations have so far been organised.<\/p>\n<p>This situation influenced the Regional Security Council and the Savelugu\/Nantong Municipal Security Committee\u2019s decision to maintain law and order there.<\/p>\n<p>It is yet unknown what the protesters&#8217; next line of action would be, but some concerned citizens of the area have called for sanity to prevail there.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Savelugu\/Nantong Municipal Chief Executive, Hajia Ayishetu Seidu has today [Wednesday] been officially inducted into office under heavy security guard. A joint task-force from the Regional Security Council and the Municipal Security Committee escorted Hajia Ayishetu to her\u00a0office. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;YD6aRinE6VNq1piCdo4BcKrkK3r5loOK&#8221;]This is to enable her assume her lawful civic position as the Savelugu\/Nantong Municipal Chief Executive. [&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":[58,10],"tags":[3,56,3278],"class_list":["post-328358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-slider-1","tag-ghana-news","tag-npp","tag-savelugu"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328358","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=328358"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/328358\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=328358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=328358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=328358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}