{"id":181012,"date":"2024-09-21T05:25:54","date_gmt":"2024-09-21T03:25:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-minister-cautions-assembly-staff-against-money-extortion\/"},"modified":"2024-09-21T05:25:54","modified_gmt":"2024-09-21T03:25:54","slug":"ghana-minister-cautions-assembly-staff-against-money-extortion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-minister-cautions-assembly-staff-against-money-extortion\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Minister Cautions Assembly Staff Against Money Extortion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The Upper East Regional Minister, Alhaji Dr Hafiz Bin Salih, has cautioned officials of the 15 Municipal and District Assemblies (MDAs) in the region against extortion of monies from contractors.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">He claimed there were reports of some MDA officials extorting monies from contractors, and from their colleague staff, particularly those of lower grades, under the pretense of securing them promotions and salary increments.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"18\">Minister issued the caution when he paid a working visit to the Kassena-Nankana&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202409200680.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Upper East Regional Minister, Alhaji Dr Hafiz Bin Salih, has cautioned officials of the 15 Municipal and District Assemblies (MDAs) in the region against extortion of monies from contractors. He claimed there were reports of some MDA officials extorting monies from contractors, and from their colleague staff, particularly those of lower grades, under the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":181013,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,7269,8316,8735,4508,4509,5941,5108,257,254,6221],"class_list":["post-181012","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-assembly","tag-cautions","tag-extortion","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-minister","tag-money","tag-news","tag-south-africa-today","tag-staff"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181012","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=181012"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181012\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/181013"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181012"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181012"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181012"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}