{"id":196621,"date":"2016-03-06T17:33:04","date_gmt":"2016-03-06T17:33:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=196621"},"modified":"2016-03-06T17:33:04","modified_gmt":"2016-03-06T17:33:04","slug":"mahamas-address-at-59th-inpendence-day-parade-full-audio","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=196621","title":{"rendered":"Mahama\u2019s address at 59th Inpendence day parade [Full audio]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President John Dramani Mahama on Sunday March 6, 2016 delivered an address at the Black Star Square in Accra to mark Ghana&#8217;s 59th independence day anniversary.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">March 6 every year is observed to commemorate the day Ghana gained independence from its colonial masters.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking at the programme which is usually characterized with a parade, President Mahama praised Ghana for continuously inspiring other Sub-Saharan African countries to strive for better democratic practices.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">President Mahama noted the role Ghana\u2019s independence played in inspiring other nations nations to also seek independence saying, \u201cAs the first Sub-Saharan nation to be independent, Ghana inspired other nations to seek independence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The theme for the 59th Independence Day celebration was \u201cInvesting in the Youth for Ghana\u2019s Transformation.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/250501319&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>President John Dramani Mahama on Sunday March 6, 2016 delivered an address at the Black Star Square in Accra to mark Ghana&#8217;s 59th independence day anniversary. March 6 every year is observed to commemorate the day Ghana gained independence from its colonial masters. Speaking at the programme which is usually characterized with a parade, President [&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-196621","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\/196621","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=196621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196621\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}