{"id":363964,"date":"2017-10-22T10:30:59","date_gmt":"2017-10-22T10:30:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=363964"},"modified":"2017-10-22T10:30:59","modified_gmt":"2017-10-22T10:30:59","slug":"nregion-npp-chides-youth-group-over-school-feeding-protest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=363964","title":{"rendered":"N\/Region: NPP chides youth group over school feeding protest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Regional branch of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), has chided some youth group believed to be affiliated with the party for staging a violent protest against the national school feeding program.<\/p>\n<p>The group, that calls itself the Burma Camp Youth Wing, went on a rampage earlier this week,\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/18\/npp-youth-lock-up-school-feeding-office-in-tamale\/\"><strong>locking up the office of the school feeding program<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0 at Oboabo, a suburb of Tamale in the Northern Region, over what they described as unfair allocation of schools to the region\u2019s caterers.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;EAdfMyl7VzNjvISLCOAaybNsd2V7Z6wv&#8221;]The group\u2019s leader, Mohammed Kamil, in an earlier interview with <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, accused the Minister of Gender and Social Protection, Otiko Afisa Djaba, of \u2018hijacking\u2019 the allocation exercise without giving them a stake in the process.<\/p>\n<p>But the acting Northern Regional Communication Director of the NPP, Issahaku Latif, said the party was not in support of the youth\u2019s action.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, it was surprising that the youth had taken the law into their own hands when there was a laid down procedure to have their views aired.<\/p>\n<p>He said the youth should have made their concerns known to the party, and not resort to locking up the offices as they did.<\/p>\n<p>Latif, however noted that, his outfit will take up the matter and find an amicable way of addressing it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe party is always open and the directorate is open for you to come and raise those particular concerns, to say that you are not very happy&#8230;.the party will take the matter up and then will go to various government appointees and we will raise this particular concern,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>While urging the youth to exercise restraint, he called on them to submit themselves to the laid down party procedures by registering their complaints properly.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Farida Yusif\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Northern Regional branch of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), has chided some youth group believed to be affiliated with the party for staging a violent protest against the national school feeding program. The group, that calls itself the Burma Camp Youth Wing, went on a rampage earlier this week,\u00a0locking up the office of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":236473,"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],"tags":[3,56,1153],"class_list":["post-363964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics","tag-ghana-news","tag-npp","tag-school-feeding-program"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363964","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=363964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/363964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/236473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=363964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=363964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=363964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}