{"id":182917,"date":"2016-01-19T10:34:01","date_gmt":"2016-01-19T10:34:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=182917"},"modified":"2016-01-19T10:34:01","modified_gmt":"2016-01-19T10:34:01","slug":"hotels-in-ghana-beef-up-security-in-fear-of-terror-attack","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=182917","title":{"rendered":"Hotels in Ghana beef up security in fear of terror attack"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The security threat in the sub-region has compelled some hotels and other tourist facilities in Accra to increase security on their premises.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It is no secret that terrorists or their likes have a penchant to attack hotels and places largely patronized by foreign nationals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The latest casualty figures from the Splendid Hotel in Burkina Faso shows that more than ten foreigners were reported dead in the recent terror attacks that killed 28 people.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To assess the level of security at some of the country\u2019s luxurious hotels in Ghana, Citi News visited two of such facilities, the Movenpick Ambassador Hotel and the Kempinski Hotel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">An armored vehicle and four armed police officers were seen at the entrance of the hotel, a sign that they are ready to deal with any threat to civilians and visitors of the hotel.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Already, Ghana&#8217;s national security apparatus has put in place some measures at most public places to tackle or ward off possible terrorist attacks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Click below to listen to audio report by Franklin Badu Junior.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/242702747&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;<br \/>\nBy: Franklin Badu Jnr.\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The security threat in the sub-region has compelled some hotels and other tourist facilities in Accra to increase security on their premises. It is no secret that terrorists or their likes have a penchant to attack hotels and places largely patronized by foreign nationals. The latest casualty figures from the Splendid Hotel in Burkina Faso [&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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-182917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182917","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=182917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/182917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=182917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=182917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=182917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}