{"id":126312,"date":"2015-06-19T10:25:42","date_gmt":"2015-06-19T10:25:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=126312"},"modified":"2015-06-19T11:52:07","modified_gmt":"2015-06-19T11:52:07","slug":"tarkwa-residents-demonstrate-against-anglogold-ashanti-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=126312","title":{"rendered":"Tarkwa residents demonstrate against AngloGold Ashanti [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Over 200 landowners in Tebrebe in the Tarkwa municipality\u00a0on Friday demonstrated at\u00a0the premises of AngloGold Ashanti\u2019s Iduaprim mine in the Western Region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG-20150619-WA0008.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-126322\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG-20150619-WA0008.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20150619-WA0008\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG-20150619-WA0008.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG-20150619-WA0008-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The landowners claim the company has taken over their 780 acres (313.33 acres) of land from some 800 land for the past two years without any form of compensation despite assurances.<\/p>\n<p>They demonstrators blocked the entry to the site burning tyres and chanting war songs.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/demo-against-anglo-gold.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-126321\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/demo-against-anglo-gold.jpg\" alt=\"demo against anglo gold\" width=\"586\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/demo-against-anglo-gold.jpg 586w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/demo-against-anglo-gold-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 586px) 100vw, 586px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>They alleged that Anglo Gold employed some military personnel, at the time, to brutalize the property owners any time they demand for compensation.<\/p>\n<p>They further claimed that a negotiations committee established have the matter resolved had yielded no positive results.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/demo-against-anglo-gold-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-126319\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/demo-against-anglo-gold-6.jpg\" alt=\"demo against anglo gold (6)\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/demo-against-anglo-gold-6.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/demo-against-anglo-gold-6-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some of the demonstrators who spoke to <strong>Citi News<\/strong> said they will keep demonstrating &#8220;until their grievances are resolved.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/demo-against-anglo-gold-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-126318 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/demo-against-anglo-gold-5.jpg\" alt=\"demo against anglo gold (5)\" width=\"489\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/demo-against-anglo-gold-5.jpg 489w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/demo-against-anglo-gold-5-300x276.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 489px) 100vw, 489px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<p>One of the residents by name, Cudjoe, narrated that &#8220;Anglo Gold expressed interest in taking over the 780-acres of land at Tebrebe. They then went to the chief of the community to start negotiations. In the course they were told to deal with the owners of the land as the chief had lawfully sold the land to them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAngloGold then decided to form a committee to foresee the transfer of ownership of the land from the land owners. They [Anglogold] begun working on some portions of the land without waiting for recommendations from the committee.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Those who resisted were brutalized by the military and any effort to get them on the negotiation table has been futile,&#8221; he lamented.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/demo-against-anglo-gold-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-126320\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/demo-against-anglo-gold-7.jpg\" alt=\"demo against anglo gold (7)\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/demo-against-anglo-gold-7.jpg 750w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/demo-against-anglo-gold-7-300x180.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\/06\/demo-against-anglo-gold-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-126317 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/demo-against-anglo-gold-4.jpg\" alt=\"demo against anglo gold (4)\" width=\"583\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/demo-against-anglo-gold-4.jpg 583w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/demo-against-anglo-gold-4-300x232.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 583px) 100vw, 583px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/demo-against-anglo-gold-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\" size-full wp-image-126315 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/demo-against-anglo-gold-2.jpg\" alt=\"demo against anglo gold (2)\" width=\"521\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/demo-against-anglo-gold-2.jpg 521w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/demo-against-anglo-gold-2-300x259.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 521px) 100vw, 521px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/demo-against-anglo-gold-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-126316\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/demo-against-anglo-gold-3.jpg\" alt=\"demo against anglo gold (3)\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/demo-against-anglo-gold-3.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/demo-against-anglo-gold-3-300x169.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: Obrempong Yaw Ampofo\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Over 200 landowners in Tebrebe in the Tarkwa municipality\u00a0on Friday demonstrated at\u00a0the premises of AngloGold Ashanti\u2019s Iduaprim mine in the Western Region. The landowners claim the company has taken over their 780 acres (313.33 acres) of land from some 800 land for the past two years without any form of compensation despite assurances. They demonstrators [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":126324,"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-126312","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\/126312","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=126312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126312\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/126324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=126312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=126312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=126312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}