{"id":7918,"date":"2019-12-29T11:10:11","date_gmt":"2019-12-29T11:10:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.com\/ghana\/?p=7918"},"modified":"2019-12-29T11:10:11","modified_gmt":"2019-12-29T11:10:11","slug":"cecilia-dapaah-replies-mahama-over-useless-sanitation-ministry-comment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.africa-press.net\/ghana\/all-news\/cecilia-dapaah-replies-mahama-over-useless-sanitation-ministry-comment","title":{"rendered":"Cecilia Dapaah replies Mahama over \u2018useless\u2019 Sanitation Ministry comment"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sanitation Minister, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, has replied former president John Mahama for describing her Ministry as \u2018useless\u2019.<\/p>\n

According to her, she expects the former president to rather encourage Ghanaians as the year goes to an end and not attack her Ministry.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs a former President, you should speak to encourage people especially as the year goes to an end but not to describe the Sanitation Ministry as useless. A former President should not speak like that; I will not insult him but will rather urge him to speak with decorum,\u201d she said on Accra based Peace FM<\/p>\n

Mr Mahama, who is also the flagbearer of the National Democratic Congress, in a Facebook Live transmission said \u201cIf the President had taken it [Sanitation Ministry] as one of his promises, then he has failed very badly, especially for the fact that you have a Sanitation Minister, you cannot understand what the Sanitation Minister is doing.\u201d<\/p>\n

But, the Minister, who sounded very worried over the comment, said the utterances of the former President showed he lacked knowledge of the works of her Ministry.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sanitation Minister, Cecilia Abena Dapaah, has replied former president John Mahama for describing her Ministry as \u2018useless\u2019. 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