{"id":127224,"date":"2015-06-22T13:44:39","date_gmt":"2015-06-22T13:44:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=127224"},"modified":"2015-06-22T16:05:56","modified_gmt":"2015-06-22T16:05:56","slug":"20-agbogbloshie-protesters-arrested-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=127224","title":{"rendered":"20 Agbogbloshie protesters arrested [Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Police have arrested 20 of the protesters demonstrating against government at Agbogbloshie in Accra over a demolition exercise.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;XJ5ujJwmgHm7b9iOQEgh13ak5lPUTjvB&#8221;]The arrest was confirmed to <strong>Citi News<\/strong> by the Greater Accra Regional Police PRO, ASP Effia Tenge.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects have been sent to the Accra Regional Police Command for interrogation.<\/p>\n<p>Currently, some Police personnel have been deployed to the area to investigate and fish out the ring leaders who mobilized the residents to protest.<\/p>\n<div class=\"jeg_video_container jeg_video_content\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Agbogbloshie residents protest demolition of their properties\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/RY4GvS9-mec?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<p>Residents of Old Fadama in Accra took to the streets on Monday to <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/06\/22\/agbogboloshie-residents-demonstrate-over-saturdays-demolition\/#sthash.jhZDGrfu.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\">protest the demolition<\/a><\/strong><\/span> of their structures over the weekend.<\/p>\n<p>They blocked the roads with stones, burnt car tyres among others.<\/p>\n<p>Some also <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/06\/22\/parts-of-state-house-vandalised-by-angry-protesters\/#sthash.0Z0SgZ9U.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>marched to the State House<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>where they vandalized some buses, flower pots and destroyed the coat of arms at the main gate.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/osamidan\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @ osamidan<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Police have arrested 20 of the protesters demonstrating against government at Agbogbloshie in Accra over a demolition exercise. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;XJ5ujJwmgHm7b9iOQEgh13ak5lPUTjvB&#8221;]The arrest was confirmed to Citi News by the Greater Accra Regional Police PRO, ASP Effia Tenge. The suspects have been sent to the Accra Regional Police Command for interrogation. Currently, some Police personnel have [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":127290,"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-127224","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\/127224","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=127224"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127224\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/127290"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}