{"id":181193,"date":"2016-01-12T13:42:00","date_gmt":"2016-01-12T13:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=181193"},"modified":"2016-01-12T13:42:00","modified_gmt":"2016-01-12T13:42:00","slug":"mahamas-reasons-for-fuel-price-hikes-new-taxes-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=181193","title":{"rendered":"Mahama\u2019s reasons for fuel price hikes, new taxes [Audio]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Ghanaians have expressed anger over what many described as a cocktail of &#8220;bitter&#8221; new year&#8217;s gift, made up of utility and fuel price hikes as well as the introduction of\u00a0new taxes.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President John Mahama in response to a question by<strong> Citi Breakfast Show\u00a0<\/strong>host Bernard Avle during an interaction with journalists, sought to explain why his government had to take that decision.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to President Mahama, though he does not enjoy slapping taxes on Ghanaians, the hard decisions have to be taken in the interest of the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President John Mahama made the comment in a question at a media interaction by Citi FM\u2019s Bernard Koku Avle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Click below for Mahama\u2019s full response:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/241591018&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghanaians have expressed anger over what many described as a cocktail of &#8220;bitter&#8221; new year&#8217;s gift, made up of utility and fuel price hikes as well as the introduction of\u00a0new taxes. President John Mahama in response to a question by Citi Breakfast Show\u00a0host Bernard Avle during an interaction with journalists, sought to explain why his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"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":[32,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181193","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181193","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=181193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181193\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=181193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=181193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=181193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}