{"id":190311,"date":"2025-02-02T04:37:01","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T02:37:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-appoint-qualified-pwds-to-leadership-roles-gfd-to-president-mahama\/"},"modified":"2025-02-02T04:37:01","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T02:37:01","slug":"ghana-appoint-qualified-pwds-to-leadership-roles-gfd-to-president-mahama","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-appoint-qualified-pwds-to-leadership-roles-gfd-to-president-mahama\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Appoint Qualified PWDs to Leadership Roles &#8211; GFD to President Mahama"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">The Ghana Federation of Disability Organisations (GFD) has called on President John Mahama to appoint qualified Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) into government and across Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"16\">It said that would be a demonstration of his commitment to disability inclusion in the country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">A statement signed by Mr Joseph Atsu Homadzi, National President, GFD, mentioned that while the constitution and Disability Act (Act 715) guaranteed equality, the reality was a&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202501310327.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 Ghana Federation of Disability Organisations (GFD) has called on President John Mahama to appoint qualified Persons with Disabilities (PWDs) into government and across Metropolitan, Municipal and District Assemblies. It said that would be a demonstration of his commitment to disability inclusion in the country. A statement signed by Mr Joseph Atsu Homadzi, National President, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":190312,"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":[258,256,12489,50553,4508,4509,8771,7780,257,2450,20470,18418,9577,254],"class_list":["post-190311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appoint","tag-gfd","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-leadership","tag-mahama","tag-news","tag-president","tag-pwds","tag-qualified","tag-roles","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/190311","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=190311"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/190311\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/190312"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=190311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=190311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=190311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}