{"id":127591,"date":"2015-06-23T16:56:16","date_gmt":"2015-06-23T16:56:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=127591"},"modified":"2015-06-24T05:58:04","modified_gmt":"2015-06-24T05:58:04","slug":"adabraka-sahara-residents-move-out-ahead-of-planned-demolition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=127591","title":{"rendered":"Adabraka Sahara residents evacuate ahead of planned demolition  \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1435066444744_4084\" class=\"yiv5133604801MsoNormal\"><b id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1435066444744_4086\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1435066444744_4085\"><\/span><\/b><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1435066444744_4083\">Some residents of Adabraka Sahara, one of the areas earmarked by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly \u00a0(AMA) for demolition have already started moving out.<\/span><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1435066444744_4082\" class=\"yiv5133604801MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1435066444744_4092\">The AMA issued a two-week ultimatum to the residents who live in the flood-prone area, especially those closer to choked gullies to evacuate or risk having their structures demolished.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5133604801MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150622_164959.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-127600\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150622_164959.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150622_164959\" width=\"585\" height=\"351\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150622_164959.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150622_164959-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 585px) 100vw, 585px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1435066444744_4102\" class=\"yiv5133604801MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1435066444744_4101\">Four people died in the area in the recent rains that flooded parts of Accra and caused the death of over 150 people.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5133604801MsoNormal\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150622_162932.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-127598\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150622_162932.jpg\" alt=\"IMG_20150622_162932\" width=\"548\" height=\"329\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150622_162932.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG_20150622_162932-300x180.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 548px) 100vw, 548px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5133604801MsoNormal\">A former Assembly Member for the area, Hendrick Noble Kinnah said the demolishing was long overdue because \u201cmost of the people along the gutter are selling drinks or operating chop bars which isn\u2019t good for our health.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5133604801MsoNormal\"><strong>Click on link below to listen to a report by Citi News\u2019 Eugenia Tenkorang <\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/211623244&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p class=\"yiv5133604801MsoNormal\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1435066444744_4114\" class=\"yiv5133604801MsoNormal\"><span id=\"yui_3_16_0_1_1435066444744_4116\">By: Eugenia Tenkorang\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some residents of Adabraka Sahara, one of the areas earmarked by the Accra Metropolitan Assembly \u00a0(AMA) for demolition have already started moving out. The AMA issued a two-week ultimatum to the residents who live in the flood-prone area, especially those closer to choked gullies to evacuate or risk having their structures demolished. Four people died [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":127601,"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-127591","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\/127591","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=127591"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/127591\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/127601"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=127591"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=127591"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=127591"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}