{"id":41714,"date":"2024-02-27T08:30:17","date_gmt":"2024-02-27T08:30:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=41714"},"modified":"2026-07-05T15:18:56","modified_gmt":"2026-07-05T15:18:56","slug":"npp-group-wants-ken-ofori-attas-appointment-withdrawn","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2024\/02\/27\/npp-group-wants-ken-ofori-attas-appointment-withdrawn\/","title":{"rendered":"NPP group wants Ken Ofori-Atta&#8217;s appointment withdrawn"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Alliance for Footsoldiers Advocacy (AFFA), a volunteer group of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), has issued a call for the government to withdraw the appointment of Ken Ofori-Atta as the Senior Presidential Advisor and Special Envoy for International Finance and Private Sector Investments.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">AFFA, in a statement, argued that Mr Ken Ofori-Atta is the only Finance Minister in the Fourth Republic who has faced public condemnation for his handling of the economy.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The group expressed concerns that appointing him to a new position amid the current economic challenges sends the wrong message to the Ghanaian electorate.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The statement from AFFA highlights the dissatisfaction among a segment of the population regarding Mr Ofori-Atta&#8217;s past performance as Finance Minister.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The statement suggests that these sentiments are significant enough to warrant a reconsideration of his new appointment.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Below is the full statement:<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.classfmonline.com\/cfoZ41e\/imagelib\/thumbs\/84260284.jpg\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Alliance for Footsoldiers Advocacy (AFFA), a volunteer group of the governing New Patriotic Party (NPP), has issued a call for the government to withdraw the appointment of Ken Ofori-Atta as the Senior Presidential Advisor and Special Envoy for International Finance and Private Sector Investments. AFFA, in a statement, argued that Mr Ken Ofori-Atta is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":38480,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[6728,11746,5196,12354,4521,2264,10954,483,1654,2035,1153,9374,11377,1898,594],"class_list":["post-41714","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-alliance","tag-appointment","tag-economy","tag-finance","tag-ghanaian","tag-government","tag-international","tag-ken-ofori-atta","tag-mr-ken-ofori-atta","tag-new-patriotic-party-npp","tag-ofori-atta","tag-population","tag-presidential","tag-special-envoy","tag-who"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41714","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=41714"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41714\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":41715,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41714\/revisions\/41715"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/38480"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41714"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41714"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41714"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}