{"id":192052,"date":"2016-02-21T16:56:12","date_gmt":"2016-02-21T16:56:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=192052"},"modified":"2016-02-21T16:56:12","modified_gmt":"2016-02-21T16:56:12","slug":"kintampo-crash-mahama-pledges-ghc100000-aid-for-survivors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=192052","title":{"rendered":"Kintampo crash: Mahama pledges Ghc100,000 aid for survivors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President John Dramani Mahama has announced a Ghc100,000 support for survivors of last Wednesday&#8217;s accident on the Kintampo-Tamale Highway.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">About 61 persons lost their lives while several others sustained severe injuries when a Kumasi-bound Metro Mass Transit bus traveling from Tamale, collided head-on with a truck fully loaded with tomatoes at Kintampo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Mahama, who bemoaned the recklessness on the country&#8217;s roads, announced the support package, when he visited survivors in the various hospitals where they were receiving treatment\u00a0at\u00a0Sunyani, the Brong Ahafo Regional capital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-192054 aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/02\/mahama-in-sunyani.jpg\" alt=\"mahama in sunyani\" width=\"599\" height=\"410\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The President, who was accompanied by General Secretary of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), Johnson Asiedu Nketia and the Chief of Staff, Julius Debrah, donated assorted items to the victims.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Some of the items included cartons of Milo and milk.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">At least, 23 passengers were reported injured and have been on an admission in various hospitals mainly at the Techiman Government Hospital as well as the Komfo Anokye Teaching Hospital in Kumasi.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Others are on admission at\u00a0the Sunyani Government Hospital and the Holy Family Hospital in Sunyani.<\/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>President John Dramani Mahama has announced a Ghc100,000 support for survivors of last Wednesday&#8217;s accident on the Kintampo-Tamale Highway. About 61 persons lost their lives while several others sustained severe injuries when a Kumasi-bound Metro Mass Transit bus traveling from Tamale, collided head-on with a truck fully loaded with tomatoes at Kintampo. President Mahama, who [&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":[5,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-192052","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192052","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=192052"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/192052\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=192052"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=192052"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=192052"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}