{"id":45053,"date":"2025-01-29T15:47:28","date_gmt":"2025-01-29T15:47:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/?p=45053"},"modified":"2025-01-29T15:47:30","modified_gmt":"2025-01-29T15:47:30","slug":"minority-opposes-approval-of-armah-kofi-buah-over-derogatory-comments-to-akufo-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/2025\/01\/29\/minority-opposes-approval-of-armah-kofi-buah-over-derogatory-comments-to-akufo-addo\/","title":{"rendered":"Minority opposes approval of Armah-Kofi Buah over derogatory comments to Akufo-Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The Minority in Parliament has strongly opposed the approval of Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah as the Minister-Designate for Lands and Natural Resources, citing his refusal to retract or apologise for comments he made regarding former President Akufo-Addo\u2019s final State of the Nation Address on January 3, 2025.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">During his vetting, Armah-Kofi Buah acknowledged that his remarks\u2014widely perceived as harsh or inappropriate\u2014were not intended to offend the former President but rather reflected the prevailing circumstances at the time.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">However, he declined to issue a retraction or apology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Despite the Minority\u2019s opposition, the Appointments Committee, by a majority decision, has recommended his approval by the House.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">The development sets the stage for further parliamentary debate, as the Minority continues to voice concerns over the nominee\u2019s stance while the Majority pushes for his confirmation.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><em><strong>Read also<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Minority in Parliament has strongly opposed the approval of Emmanuel Armah-Kofi Buah as the Minister-Designate for Lands and Natural Resources, citing his refusal to retract or apologise for comments he made regarding former President Akufo-Addo\u2019s final State of the Nation Address on January 3, 2025. During his vetting, Armah-Kofi Buah acknowledged that his remarks\u2014widely [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":45054,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_post_source_name":"","_post_source_url":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[43,1],"tags":[13052,9678,11736,11399,10391,5556,11743,1198,3805,11688],"class_list":["post-45053","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local-news","category-news","tag-akufo","tag-apology","tag-armah-kofi-buah","tag-debate","tag-declined","tag-galamsey","tag-majority","tag-parliament","tag-president","tag-state-of-the-nation"],"blocksy_meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45053","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=45053"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45053\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45056,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45053\/revisions\/45056"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/45054"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45053"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45053"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nsemgh.com\/api-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45053"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}