{"id":124588,"date":"2015-06-13T15:00:20","date_gmt":"2015-06-13T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=124588"},"modified":"2015-06-13T13:00:31","modified_gmt":"2015-06-13T13:00:31","slug":"mahama-inspects-dredging-of-the-korle-lagoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=124588","title":{"rendered":"Mahama inspects dredging of the Korle Lagoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>President John Mahama on Friday inspected the\u00a0dredging of the Korle Lagoon at Korle Gonno in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>The dredging is a collaboration between the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) and the Ministry of Roads and Highways.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/18557792740_67580f3d3c_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-124595\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/18557792740_67580f3d3c_z.jpg\" alt=\"18557792740_67580f3d3c_z\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/18557792740_67580f3d3c_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/18557792740_67580f3d3c_z-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The exercise commenced following the June 3 floods which wrecked havoc in the capital and led to the loss of over 160 lives.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/18557721568_fb8cd25791_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-124593\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/18557721568_fb8cd25791_z.jpg\" alt=\"18557721568_fb8cd25791_z\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/18557721568_fb8cd25791_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/18557721568_fb8cd25791_z-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The President admitted that the inability of governments to\u00a0complete the dredging of the lagoon has over the years contributed to the flooding of the city.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/18124900573_5f036b46b3_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-124592\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/18124900573_5f036b46b3_z.jpg\" alt=\"odaw\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/18124900573_5f036b46b3_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/18124900573_5f036b46b3_z-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>In all, 13 excavators and 29 trucks are engaged in the dredging of the lagoon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/18747976441_309dd9f217_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-124590\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/18747976441_309dd9f217_z.jpg\" alt=\"odaw\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/18747976441_309dd9f217_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/18747976441_309dd9f217_z-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>President Mahama also inspected work on the Odaw River dredging project at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/18124860203_df8d2f6c06_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-124591\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/18124860203_df8d2f6c06_z.jpg\" alt=\"odaw\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/18124860203_df8d2f6c06_z.jpg 640w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/18124860203_df8d2f6c06_z-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>President John Mahama on Friday inspected the\u00a0dredging of the Korle Lagoon at Korle Gonno in Accra. The dredging is a collaboration between the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) and the Ministry of Roads and Highways. The exercise commenced following the June 3 floods which wrecked havoc in the capital and led to the loss of over [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":124594,"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":[2],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-124588","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124588","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=124588"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/124588\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/124594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=124588"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=124588"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=124588"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}