{"id":102766,"date":"2015-03-26T13:38:33","date_gmt":"2015-03-26T13:38:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=102766"},"modified":"2015-03-26T14:01:39","modified_gmt":"2015-03-26T14:01:39","slug":"buwumia-leads-hundreds-to-demonstrate-in-upper-east-region","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=102766","title":{"rendered":"Buwumia leads hundreds to demonstrate in Upper East Region"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Vice presidential candidate of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia on Thursday led hundreds of people in the Upper East region to demonstrate against\u00a0President John Mahama&#8217;s government over what they say is worsening economic conditions.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/upper-east-demonstration-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-102776\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/upper-east-demonstration-4.jpg\" alt=\"upper east demonstration (4)\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/upper-east-demonstration-4.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/upper-east-demonstration-4-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to <strong>Citi News\u2019<\/strong> Frederick Awuni \u201cThey complain about the hardship in the economy, high fees for admission into teacher and nursing training colleges, they also spoke about collapsing NHIS, corruption under the GYEEDA and SADA programmes among others,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/upper-east-demonstration-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-102777\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/upper-east-demonstration-5.jpg\" alt=\"upper east demonstration (5)\" width=\"600\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/upper-east-demonstration-5.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/upper-east-demonstration-5-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Frederick Awuni also reported that some personalities in the NPP including the Deputy Minority Leader, Dominic Nitiwul and the National Youth organiser of the party, Sammy Awuku\u00a0joined the demonstrators.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bawumia-at-demo-in-upper-east.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-102826\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bawumia-at-demo-in-upper-east.jpg\" alt=\"bawumia at demo in upper east\" width=\"600\" height=\"433\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bawumia-at-demo-in-upper-east.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/bawumia-at-demo-in-upper-east-300x216.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/fred-oware-at-npp-demo-in-upper-east.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-102827\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/fred-oware-at-npp-demo-in-upper-east.jpg\" alt=\"fred oware at npp demo in upper east\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/fred-oware-at-npp-demo-in-upper-east.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/fred-oware-at-npp-demo-in-upper-east-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/upper-east-demonstration-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-102779\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/upper-east-demonstration-8.jpg\" alt=\"upper east demonstration (8)\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/upper-east-demonstration-8.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/upper-east-demonstration-8-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cJohn Boadu, National Organizer of the NPP, Kamal Deen Abdulai, NASARA coordinator, Chairman Wontum, Ashanti regional chairman, Bugri Naabu, Northern regional chairman, among others were also there.\u201d Awuni reported.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/upper-east-demonstration-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-102778\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/upper-east-demonstration-6.jpg\" alt=\"upper east demonstration (6)\" width=\"598\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/upper-east-demonstration-6.jpg 598w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/upper-east-demonstration-6-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The NPP have organized similar demonstrations in Accra and Kumasi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/upper-east-demonstration-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-102775\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/upper-east-demonstration-3.jpg\" alt=\"upper east demonstration (3)\" width=\"598\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/upper-east-demonstration-3.jpg 598w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/upper-east-demonstration-3-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 598px) 100vw, 598px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/upper-east-demonstration.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-102782\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/upper-east-demonstration.jpg\" alt=\"upper east demonstration\" width=\"600\" height=\"402\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/upper-east-demonstration.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/upper-east-demonstration-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 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According to Citi News\u2019 Frederick Awuni \u201cThey complain about the hardship in the economy, high fees for admission [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":102774,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-102766","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102766","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=102766"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/102766\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/102774"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=102766"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=102766"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=102766"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}