{"id":130811,"date":"2015-07-02T15:13:19","date_gmt":"2015-07-02T15:13:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=130811"},"modified":"2015-07-02T15:13:19","modified_gmt":"2015-07-02T15:13:19","slug":"school-children-injured-in-bunso-canopy-walkway-collapse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=130811","title":{"rendered":"School children injured in Bunso canopy walkway collapse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">About 20 people, mostly school children who had gone to have fun on the Bunso canopy walkway on Wednesday sustained various degrees of injuries after it collapsed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Chief Executive Officer of Bunso Canopy walkway, Kenneth Akufo has denied claims that the facility collapsed because of weak cables holding it, claiming it was purely &#8220;an accident.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/canopy-walkway-collapse-3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-130814\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/canopy-walkway-collapse-3.jpg\" alt=\"canopy walkway collapse (3)\" width=\"514\" height=\"450\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/canopy-walkway-collapse-3.jpg 514w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/canopy-walkway-collapse-3-300x263.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 514px) 100vw, 514px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Kenneth Akufo said the accident has nothing to do with how they manage the facility.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/canopy-walkway-collapse-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-130813\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/canopy-walkway-collapse-2.jpg\" alt=\"canopy walkway collapse (2)\" width=\"450\" height=\"534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/canopy-walkway-collapse-2.jpg 450w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/canopy-walkway-collapse-2-253x300.jpg 253w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThere was an event here yesterday. After the event there was a live band session here. While people were dancing some kids sneaked to the canopy walk area. They broke the gate in order to access the canopy walk. When they were on their second walk it was windy because it was late. So a tree fell and hit the canopy cable but the bridge itself did not break.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/canopy-walkway-collapse-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-130812\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/canopy-walkway-collapse-1.jpg\" alt=\"canopy walkway collapse (1)\" width=\"450\" height=\"476\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/canopy-walkway-collapse-1.jpg 450w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/canopy-walkway-collapse-1-284x300.jpg 284w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 450px) 100vw, 450px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said &#8220;we carry periodic\u00a0maintenance works on the the canopy either than that people would have died before hitting the ground. In an attempt to run, some of them broke a leg and an arm, but the cables are new.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile, <strong>Citi News<\/strong>\u00a0has gathered the school children who were hurt in the process are receiving treatment at the Oseim Memorial Hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin A. Akweiteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><br \/>\n<script>\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>About 20 people, mostly school children who had gone to have fun on the Bunso canopy walkway on Wednesday sustained various degrees of injuries after it collapsed. Chief Executive Officer of Bunso Canopy walkway, Kenneth Akufo has denied claims that the facility collapsed because of weak cables holding it, claiming it was purely &#8220;an accident.&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":130815,"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-130811","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\/130811","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=130811"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/130811\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/130815"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=130811"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=130811"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=130811"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}