{"id":350149,"date":"2017-09-02T13:30:45","date_gmt":"2017-09-02T13:30:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=350149"},"modified":"2017-11-10T12:33:35","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T12:33:35","slug":"nothing-heroic-about-quaitoos-resignation-pelpuo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/09\/nothing-heroic-about-quaitoos-resignation-pelpuo\/","title":{"rendered":"Nothing heroic about Quaitoo’s resignation – Pelpuo"},"content":{"rendered":"
The Wa Central MP, Rashid Pelpuo is unimpressed by attempts to commend the Akufo-Addo administration following the recent resignation<\/a><\/strong><\/span> of the immediate past\u00a0Deputy Agriculture Minister, William Quaitoo.<\/p>\n “That is an individual who decided to resign. What has that got to do with the government?” Mr. Pelpuo quizzed on The<\/strong> Big Issue<\/strong>.<\/p>\n “He [William Quaitoo] decided that he wanted to resign and he resigned and the government accepted his resignation. It has got nothing to do with an effort by the government, at least, on the face value.\u201d<\/p>\n Mr. Quaitoo, who is also the Member of Parliament for Akim Oda, faced the scorn of the public, the National Democratic Congress Minority, and some civil society groups, for making ethnocentric comments, after saying northern farmers could not be trusted in their assessment of the damage from the army worm.<\/p>\n