{"id":337230,"date":"2017-07-18T06:00:03","date_gmt":"2017-07-18T06:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=337230"},"modified":"2017-07-18T06:00:03","modified_gmt":"2017-07-18T06:00:03","slug":"ghana-has-become-lawless-under-akufo-addo-a-b-a-fuseini","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=337230","title":{"rendered":"Ghana has become lawless under Akufo-Addo \u2013 A.B.A. Fuseini"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Sagnarigu, A.B.A. Fuseini, has criticized President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo&#8217;s performance in office in the last six months.<\/p>\n<p>According to the MP, Akufo-Addo\u2019s government has been characterized by\u00a0what he described as \u201cunprecedented lawlessness\u201d and \u201ccorruption.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;NlBQIXyyDBh5kD4txEOpWIycbtTU7v60&#8243;]The President, Akufo-Addo, will address the press today [Tuesday] at the Flagstaff House.<\/p>\n<p>Journalists are expected to ask the President questions bordering on all sectors of the economy and topical issues that have come up strongly since Akufo-Addo took over the administration of Ghana on January 7, 2017.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking on <strong>Eyewitness News<\/strong> on Monday, Mr. Fuseini said he expects the President to touch on how he intends to restore the peace Ghanaians enjoyed under the Mahama government.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFormer President John Mahama handed over to President Akufo-Addo a very peaceful, orderly and stable country. Today we have unprecedented levels of lawlessness across the country. And which has caused the security of lives and persons and property\u2026 Never in the annals of the country\u2019s history have we descended into such levels of lawlessness.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would also want him to address the issue of fundamental security and also the issue of corruption because he has made a very sacred pledge to protect the public purse. And after just six months in office we are hearing all sorts of allegations of corruption which in spite of President Akufo-Addo\u2019s claim that he was in a hurry to do things, he seems not to be in a hurry to investigate\u201d he\u00a0noted.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Godwin Akweiteh Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><br \/>\n<script>!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');<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Member of Parliament for Sagnarigu, A.B.A. Fuseini, has criticized President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo&#8217;s performance in office in the last six months. According to the MP, Akufo-Addo\u2019s government has been characterized by\u00a0what he described as \u201cunprecedented lawlessness\u201d and \u201ccorruption.\u201d [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;NlBQIXyyDBh5kD4txEOpWIycbtTU7v60&#8243;]The President, Akufo-Addo, will address the press today [Tuesday] at [&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":[58,10,11],"tags":[36,3,7667,9416],"class_list":["post-337230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-corruption","tag-ghana-news","tag-lawlessness","tag-six-months-of-akufo-addo-government"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337230","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=337230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337230\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=337230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=337230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=337230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}