{"id":158630,"date":"2015-10-09T17:50:09","date_gmt":"2015-10-09T17:50:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=158630"},"modified":"2015-10-09T17:50:09","modified_gmt":"2015-10-09T17:50:09","slug":"accra-floods-govt-issues-alert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=158630","title":{"rendered":"Accra floods: Gov\u2019t issues alert"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Following the heavy downpour that flooded most parts of Accra on Friday, government is urging residents to move to higher grounds.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A statement signed by the Minister of Communications, Edward K. Omane Boamah further entreated Ghanaians to stay away from open drains.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/accra-floods-again-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-158616 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/accra-floods-again-7.jpg\" alt=\"accra floods again (7)\" width=\"587\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/accra-floods-again-7.jpg 587w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/accra-floods-again-7-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cGovernment urges residents of Accra and all parts of the country to take note of the persistent downpour this morning. Residents are encouraged to stay away from open drains and move to higher grounds if they live in low-lying areas.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/accra-floods-again-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-158611 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/accra-floods-again-2.jpg\" alt=\"accra floods again (2)\" width=\"587\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/accra-floods-again-2.jpg 587w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/accra-floods-again-2-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The statement said, \u201cin the event of an emergency, residents are advised to call 112.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cThe emergency services stand ready to respond swiftly to any distress calls that may emerge,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/accra-floods-again-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-158617 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/accra-floods-again-8.jpg\" alt=\"accra floods again (8)\" width=\"587\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/accra-floods-again-8.jpg 587w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/10\/accra-floods-again-8-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 587px) 100vw, 587px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Parts of Accra got flooded during a heavy downpour which lasted over two hours.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Several properties running into thousands of Ghana cedis were lost.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some\u00a0automobile companies along the Graphic Road in Accra were not also spared by the rain.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Following the heavy downpour that flooded most parts of Accra on Friday, government is urging residents to move to higher grounds. A statement signed by the Minister of Communications, Edward K. Omane Boamah further entreated Ghanaians to stay away from open drains. \u201cGovernment urges residents of Accra and all parts of the country to take [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":158638,"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-158630","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\/158630","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=158630"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/158630\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/158638"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=158630"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=158630"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=158630"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}