{"id":115941,"date":"2015-05-13T20:00:31","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T20:00:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=115941"},"modified":"2015-05-13T22:26:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T22:26:29","slug":"attacks-against-celebrities-over-dumsor-vigil-unfair-rawlings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=115941","title":{"rendered":"Attacks against celebrities over &#8216;Dumsor vigil&#8217; unfair &#8211; Rawlings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Former President Jerry Rawlings has taken a swipe at those attacking the celebrities over their planned \u201cDumsor vigil\u201d aimed at expressing their displeasure about the worsening power situation in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Yg6e3igdD4WXfa4B1qdUJRw1BzzfEpkQ&#8221;]The vigil, which has been slated in Accra on May 16, is being led by the actress, Yvonne Nelson and the rapper, Sarkodie.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The organizers have been attacked by a section of Ghanaians including\u00a0Founder of Bull Haus entertainment, Bull Dog who has described the vigil as a &#8220;<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/05\/11\/dumsorvigil-is-a-dumb-idea-bulldog\/#sthash.hEEUO1jZ.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\">dumb idea.<\/a><\/strong><\/span>&#8220;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some government spokesperson have also criticized\u00a0the celebrities and accused them of working for the NPP.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">But commenting on the issue, the former president explained that though the power crisis may be justifiable raining insults on the celebrities in uncalled for.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cOur sister Yvonne Nelson is expressing her concerns and insults are being rained on her. It\u2019s not fair. Is that how to do politics?\u201d he wondered.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said: \u201cI have been angered by certain things but I have kept quiet. It\u2019s not money that will rescue us, its not power play that will rescue us but integrity\u2026 and humility\u2026in our political activities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Jerry John Rawlings made the statement when former Black Stars captain Stephen Appiah visited him following his upcoming testimonial match.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Former President Jerry Rawlings has taken a swipe at those attacking the celebrities over their planned \u201cDumsor vigil\u201d aimed at expressing their displeasure about the worsening power situation in the country. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Yg6e3igdD4WXfa4B1qdUJRw1BzzfEpkQ&#8221;]The vigil, which has been slated in Accra on May 16, is being led by the actress, Yvonne Nelson and the rapper, Sarkodie. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":115942,"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":[],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-115941","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115941","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=115941"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115941\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/115942"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115941"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115941"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115941"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}