{"id":147639,"date":"2015-08-31T17:00:55","date_gmt":"2015-08-31T17:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=147639"},"modified":"2015-09-01T07:42:19","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T07:42:19","slug":"richard-skys-special-report-the-poisoned-generation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=147639","title":{"rendered":"Richard Sky&#8217;s special Report: \u2018The Poisoned Generation\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of children of school-going-age are literally rotting away at Old Fadama, the biggest slum in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>Born into vicious poverty and growing up in a profoundly underserved community, famed for all kinds of dreadful social vices &#8211; including violent crime, drug use, and prostitution &#8211; these children face an uncertain future in a free country where one out of every three children live in biting poverty.<\/p>\n<p>In this special report titled: \u201cTHE POISONED GENERATION,\u201d <strong>CitiNews\u2019<\/strong> Richard Dela Sky, tells a compelling story of how thousands of Ghana\u2019s children at Old Fadama are inadvertently poisoning themselves daily, with toxic fumes at electronic waste dump sites just outside the slum in a desperate effort to put food on the table.<\/p>\n<p>The report, 45 minutes in length, was first aired on the award-winning <strong>Citi Breakfast Show<\/strong> on Monday August 31, 2015.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/221720401&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","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thousands of children of school-going-age are literally rotting away at Old Fadama, the biggest slum in Accra. Born into vicious poverty and growing up in a profoundly underserved community, famed for all kinds of dreadful social vices &#8211; including violent crime, drug use, and prostitution &#8211; these children face an uncertain future in a free [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":53656,"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-147639","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\/147639","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=147639"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147639\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53656"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147639"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147639"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147639"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}