{"id":128860,"date":"2015-06-28T10:06:53","date_gmt":"2015-06-28T10:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=128860"},"modified":"2015-06-28T12:36:23","modified_gmt":"2015-06-28T12:36:23","slug":"odaw-river-dredging-begins-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=128860","title":{"rendered":"Odaw river dredging begins [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has begun dredging the Odaw River at Old Fadama.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20150627_234332.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-128865\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20150627_234332.jpg\" alt=\"20150627_234332\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20150627_234332.jpg 533w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20150627_234332-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Four excavators are currently on the site carrying out the exercise.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20150627_234614.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-128868\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20150627_234614.jpg\" alt=\"20150627_234614\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20150627_234614.jpg 533w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20150627_234614-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The exercise which begun on Saturday is expected to remove tons of filth and silt in the river to allow free flow of water into the Korle Lagoon, especially during the rainy season, to prevent the recurrent flooding.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20150627_234929.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-128869\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20150627_234929.jpg\" alt=\"20150627_234929\" width=\"549\" height=\"413\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20150627_234929.jpg 3264w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20150627_234929-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20150627_234929-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 549px) 100vw, 549px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Last week,<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/06\/24\/we-lost-our-school-items-in-the-demolition-old-fadama-pupils\/#sthash.ZdepzXxI.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"> hundreds of structures were<\/a><\/strong><\/span> demolished along the Odaw River at Old Fadama to make way for the dredging.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20150627_234707.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-128873\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20150627_234707.jpg\" alt=\"20150627_234707\" width=\"533\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20150627_234707.jpg 533w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/20150627_234707-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 533px) 100vw, 533px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The demolition which sparked controversy had over thousands of residents rendered homeless.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Kojo Agyeman\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) has begun dredging the Odaw River at Old Fadama. Four excavators are currently on the site carrying out the exercise. The exercise which begun on Saturday is expected to remove tons of filth and silt in the river to allow free flow of water into the Korle Lagoon, especially during [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":128866,"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-128860","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\/128860","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=128860"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128860\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/128866"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=128860"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=128860"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=128860"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}