{"id":4165,"date":"2014-03-05T19:05:59","date_gmt":"2014-03-05T19:05:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=4165"},"modified":"2014-03-05T20:01:22","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T20:01:22","slug":"tweeaaa-dce-dismissed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=4165","title":{"rendered":"\u201cTweeaaa\u201d DCE dismissed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Ahafo Ano South in the Ashanti Region, Gabriel Barima who recently made the word \u201ctwea\u201d popular has been dismissed with immediate effect.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4104\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-4104\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Gabriel-Barima.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-4104\" alt=\"Gabriel Barima, the DCE who became popular for using the word tweaa and storming out of a durbar\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Gabriel-Barima-300x300.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Gabriel-Barima.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Gabriel-Barima-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Gabriel-Barima-70x70.jpg 70w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-4104\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gabriel Barima, the DCE who became popular for using the word tweaa and storming out of a durbar<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>A statement signed the Executive Secretary to the President; Dr. Raymond Atuguba said: \u201cThe President exercising the powers conferred on him by the Local Government Act section 204, has dismissed the DCE for Ahafo Ano South, Gabriel Barima with immediate effect.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The statement also said the Ashanti Regional Minister has been directed to act until a substantive DCE is appointed.<\/p>\n<p>Gabriel Barima was recently caught on film throwing tantrums and storming out of a durbar because a member of the audience reportedly said \u201ctweaa\u201d during his speech.<\/p>\n<p>There were calls for his dismissal but Mr. Barima was reprimanded by the Local Government and Rural Development Minister and was allowed to stay on as DCE.<\/p>\n<p>However, he reportedly asked for royalties for popularising &#8220;tweaa&#8221; in another interview this week and that seemed to have earned him the wrath of the Minister of Local Government Minister who issued a statement to express his disgust.<\/p>\n<p>The statement issued earlier on Wednesday said: \u201cIn view of this development, the Ministry is reviewing its earlier decision to ensure that Hon. Barima is appropriately sanctioned according to the high standards of public office.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Nana Ama A. Asante\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The District Chief Executive (DCE) for Ahafo Ano South in the Ashanti Region, Gabriel Barima who recently made the word \u201ctwea\u201d popular has been dismissed with immediate effect. A statement signed the Executive Secretary to the President; Dr. Raymond Atuguba said: \u201cThe President exercising the powers conferred on him by the Local Government Act section [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":4104,"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-4165","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\/4165","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=4165"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4165\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4104"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4165"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4165"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4165"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}