{"id":71387,"date":"2014-12-05T06:51:47","date_gmt":"2014-12-05T06:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=71387"},"modified":"2014-12-05T06:51:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-05T06:51:47","slug":"jirapa-youth-commend-mahama-for-sacking-dce","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=71387","title":{"rendered":"Jirapa youth commend Mahama for sacking DCE\u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Youth in the Jirapa District of the Upper West Region say they are happy about the President&#8217;s dismissal of the District Chief Executive (DCE) for the area, Vivian Nelly Kunku.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;lazQLrIt4nhgtruyAeIb9A65EwpWZv5Y&#8221;]The President sacked Madam Vivian Kunku on Wednesday after series of agitation against her leadership style by NDC youth in the district.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The youth accused her of <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/10\/21\/jirapa-dce-tried-to-bribe-us-ndc-youth-group\/\" target=\"_blank\">abuse of power and wrongful award of contract<\/a>s<\/strong><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to them, they fear that the actions of Madam Kunko <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/10\/13\/sack-jirapa-dce-now-ndc-youth-demand\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>could cause the defeat of the NDC<\/strong><\/a><\/span> in the 2016 general elections.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Even though the DCE&#8217;s dismissal is not directly linked to the agitations of the youth,\u00a0their spokesperson Ishmael Sung commended President Mahama for the action in an interview with <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, adding that \u201cwe knew the president will do the right thing because everything was very wrong; the lady was incompetent and not on top of issues.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He therefore pleaded to the government to look at the issues in the district and find a capable person for the position.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThey should bring in a bridger, a unifier, somebody who will be neutral and be ready to unify all our ranks, someone who is development oriented,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He argued that appointing a competent DCE would help achieve a better agenda for the 2016 election.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Patricia Conteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Democratic Congress (NDC) Youth in the Jirapa District of the Upper West Region say they are happy about the President&#8217;s dismissal of the District Chief Executive (DCE) for the area, Vivian Nelly Kunku. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;lazQLrIt4nhgtruyAeIb9A65EwpWZv5Y&#8221;]The President sacked Madam Vivian Kunku on Wednesday after series of agitation against her leadership style by NDC youth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":58084,"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":[],"tags":[56,38,17],"class_list":["post-71387","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-npp","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71387","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=71387"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71387\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/58084"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=71387"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=71387"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=71387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}