{"id":197840,"date":"2025-05-11T00:18:55","date_gmt":"2025-05-10T22:18:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-npp-accuses-govt-of-wasteful-expenditure-in-reaction-to-mahamas-120-days-in-office\/"},"modified":"2025-05-11T00:18:55","modified_gmt":"2025-05-10T22:18:55","slug":"ghana-npp-accuses-govt-of-wasteful-expenditure-in-reaction-to-mahamas-120-days-in-office","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-npp-accuses-govt-of-wasteful-expenditure-in-reaction-to-mahamas-120-days-in-office\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: NPP Accuses Govt of Wasteful Expenditure &#8230; in Reaction to Mahama&#8217;s 120 Days in Office"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"30\">The New Patriotic Party (NPP) has criticised the government for engaging in wasteful expenditure, despite its campaign promises to maintain a lean government and ensure prudent use of state funds.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"36\">The party stressed that the government has failed woefully on its promises, as it has allocated GH\u00a23.8 billion to the Office of Government Machinery, with GH\u00a22.7 billion of the amount being designated solely for staff remuneration.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"37\">At a press conference in Accra yesterday, in response to President John&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202505090109.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 New Patriotic Party (NPP) has criticised the government for engaging in wasteful expenditure, despite its campaign promises to maintain a lean government and ensure prudent use of state funds. The party stressed that the government has failed woefully on its promises, as it has allocated GH\u00a23.8 billion to the Office of Government Machinery, with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":197841,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[5070,258,256,6192,20454,4508,4509,4357,8901,257,15763,8089,18146,254,19496],"class_list":["post-197840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-accuses","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-days","tag-expenditure","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-govt","tag-mahamas","tag-news","tag-npp","tag-office","tag-reaction","tag-south-africa-today","tag-wasteful"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/197840","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=197840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197840\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197841"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}