{"id":53413,"date":"2018-09-19T11:15:15","date_gmt":"2018-09-19T11:15:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.com\/gh\/?p=53413"},"modified":"2018-09-19T01:44:27","modified_gmt":"2018-09-19T01:44:27","slug":"there-was-no-substance-in-blakofes-allegations-deputy-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghafla.co.ke\/gh\/there-was-no-substance-in-blakofes-allegations-deputy-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"There Was No Substance In Blakofe\u2019s Allegations \u2013 Deputy Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Dr Ziblim Iddi talks about Akua Blakofe\u2019s allegation. Blakofe made allegations against the Ghana Tourism Development Company (GTDC). However, he says there is no substance.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, Akua Blakofe accused the CEO, Kwadwo Antwi of failing to live up to the office\u2019s mandate.<\/p>\n<p>After Blakofe\u2019s subsequent resignation, the media had a hard time getting responses from Kwadwo Antwi about the allegations.<\/p>\n<h4>Dr Ziblim Iddi rubbished all of Blakofe\u2019s allegations in an interview with JoyNews\u2019 MzGee<\/h4>\n<p>\u201cI think that we investigate matters if you have leads to pursue and if allegations are thrown out and you go in and there are no leads and you don\u2019t find anything, I don\u2019t think it is something\u2026 Let me say that the Ghana Tourism Development Company is one of our important agencies. Therefore, the ministry takes the work they do there seriously. Those allegations were taken seriously and I think that if there was any substance to them, we would have pursued it to a logical conclusion.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Deputy Minister for Tourism, Arts and Culture, Dr Ziblim Iddi talks about Akua Blakofe\u2019s allegation. Blakofe made allegations against the Ghana Tourism Development Company (GTDC). However, he says there is no substance. Earlier this year, Akua Blakofe accused the CEO, Kwadwo Antwi of failing to live up to the office\u2019s mandate. 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