{"id":123970,"date":"2015-06-11T15:18:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-11T15:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=123970"},"modified":"2015-06-11T15:18:16","modified_gmt":"2015-06-11T15:18:16","slug":"structures-at-aboabo-asawasi-demolished","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=123970","title":{"rendered":"Structures at Aboabo-Asawasi demolished"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Asokore Mampong Municipal Assembly on Thursday demolished some buildings and structures in Aboabo- Asawasi in the Ashanti Region.<\/p>\n<p>The demolition has become necessary following \u00a0flooding in the area.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;SWWdKZxmT8CqxzELHqunQ9FqbKCQtkrl&#8221;]The area which is locally known as &#8216;Dagomba line&#8217;, is reportedly a flood prone area and poses health, environmental and security threat to residents in the community.<\/p>\n<p>The Municipal Chief Executive of the area , Nureeden Hamidan, told <strong>Citi News<\/strong> that the assembly did not only notify residents ahead of the demolition but has met them to discuss the need for demolition.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We asked the health department to come and asses the health situation and we also asked the<a class=\"bgiahnam\" title=\"Click to Continue &gt; by Extreme Blocker\" href=\"#82283052\"> environmental health<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cdncache-a.akamaihd.net\/items\/it\/img\/arrow-10x10.png\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a> officers to come. The report that came out of it was so damning that we needed to do something about it&#8230;Around September we wrote to them on the need to demolish the structures.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The residents however say the Assembly only notified them just two days before the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;They notified us just two days ago. We thank God we got a place to put our fridge and other items. As of 5.30 this morning, they had started the demolition. If government thinks this is best for somebody what can we say?&#8221;an agitated resident quizzed.<\/p>\n<p>Superintendent James Annor said no one had yet resisted the exercise since it began.<\/p>\n<p>He said the Police will however ensure that it deals with anyone who disrupts the exercise.<\/p>\n<p>&#8221; We are still monitoring and whoever wants to put a challenge, the security agencies will take that person up.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The government has resorted to demolishing some buildings it considers to be constructed in waterways after the fire and flood disaster which killed over 150 persons.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Asokore Mampong Municipal Assembly on Thursday demolished some buildings and structures in Aboabo- Asawasi in the Ashanti Region. The demolition has become necessary following \u00a0flooding in the area. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;SWWdKZxmT8CqxzELHqunQ9FqbKCQtkrl&#8221;]The area which is locally known as &#8216;Dagomba line&#8217;, is reportedly a flood prone area and poses health, environmental and security threat to residents in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":123067,"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":[38,17],"class_list":["post-123970","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123970","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=123970"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123970\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/123067"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=123970"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=123970"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=123970"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}