{"id":201865,"date":"2016-03-26T10:30:16","date_gmt":"2016-03-26T10:30:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=201865"},"modified":"2016-03-26T10:30:16","modified_gmt":"2016-03-26T10:30:16","slug":"police-halts-pro-npp-health-walk-in-ho","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=201865","title":{"rendered":"Police &#8216;halts&#8217; pro-NPP health walk in Ho"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Police in the Volta Region on Saturday Morning\u00a0\u00a0prevented members of a pro New Patriotic Party \u00a0(NPP) group from holding a peaceful health at Ho, although they met the requirements of the Public Order Act.<\/p>\n<p>The health walk, dubbed March for Change, was spearheaded by the group, &#8216;Volta For Change&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-201876\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG-20160326-WA0005.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20160326-WA0005\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p><strong>Citi News&#8217; \u00a0<\/strong>King<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Norbert Akpablie quoted the police as saying that they took the decision based on an &#8216;order from above&#8217; although the police had been duly notified of the exercise.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-201879\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG-20160326-WA0008.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20160326-WA0008\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-201878\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG-20160326-WA0007.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20160326-WA0007\" width=\"600\" height=\"360\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Akpablie reported that over thirty police officers from a SWOT team were deployed to ensure that the new illegal directive &#8216;from above&#8217; is enforced.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-201880\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/IMG-20160326-WA0009.jpg\" alt=\"IMG-20160326-WA0009\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The President of the group, Eyram Doe wondered why the group were prevented from going ahead with the event when they had duly notified the police who had no problem with it.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We asked permission we wrote letters to the Police to inform them that we will be having this programme but we arrived here and the Commander of Operations in the region came to tell us \u00a0that we cannot have the programme. We asked the Police to give us tangible reasons why we cannot hold this programme but they could not.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile after a holdup for several hours, the police finally allowed the team to go ahead with the peaceful health walk.<\/p>\n<p>This health walk comes barely a month after an NDC youth group \u00a0held a similar one\u00a0at Hohoe in the Volta Region.<\/p>\n<p>The <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2016\/03\/07\/afriyie-ankrah-segbefia-and-others-in-health-walk-for-jm\/\" target=\"_blank\">health\u00a0walk\u00a0<\/a><\/strong><\/span>was also used \u00a0to campaign for President Mahama ahead of the November polls, in the party&#8217;s stronghold region.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EfeAnsah\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @EfeAnsah<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s) [0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police in the Volta Region on Saturday Morning\u00a0\u00a0prevented members of a pro New Patriotic Party \u00a0(NPP) group from holding a peaceful health at Ho, although they met the requirements of the Public Order Act. The health walk, dubbed March for Change, was spearheaded by the group, &#8216;Volta For Change&#8217;. &nbsp; Citi News&#8217; \u00a0King\u00a0Norbert Akpablie quoted [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-201865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201865","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=201865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/201865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=201865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=201865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=201865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}