{"id":188022,"date":"2025-01-06T13:26:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T11:26:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-president-elect-john-dramani-mahama-urge-to-ensure-fiscal-discipline\/"},"modified":"2025-01-06T13:26:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T11:26:10","slug":"ghana-president-elect-john-dramani-mahama-urge-to-ensure-fiscal-discipline","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-president-elect-john-dramani-mahama-urge-to-ensure-fiscal-discipline\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: President &#8211; Elect John Dramani Mahama Urge to Ensure Fiscal Discipline"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The President-elect, Mr John Dramani Mahama, has been urged to ensure the avoidance of lavish spending under his administration to save resources and to serve as a signal to his commitment to fiscal management and corruption.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"26\">He has also been entreated to conduct a full audit of all projects initiated and contracts awarded by previous state officials to ensure value for money.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">These were contained in a 10-point recommendation letter by the founder of Support Life International, a non-profit&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501060110.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 President-elect, Mr John Dramani Mahama, has been urged to ensure the avoidance of lavish spending under his administration to save resources and to serve as a signal to his commitment to fiscal management and corruption. He has also been entreated to conduct a full audit of all projects initiated and contracts awarded by previous [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":188023,"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":[258,256,17671,50256,6475,9925,11505,4508,4509,9726,7780,257,2450,254,10525],"class_list":["post-188022","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-discipline","tag-dramani","tag-elect","tag-ensure","tag-fiscal","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-john","tag-mahama","tag-news","tag-president","tag-south-africa-today","tag-urge"],"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\/188022","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=188022"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/188022\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188023"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=188022"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=188022"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=188022"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}