{"id":215150,"date":"2016-05-18T10:54:23","date_gmt":"2016-05-18T10:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=215150"},"modified":"2016-05-18T10:54:23","modified_gmt":"2016-05-18T10:54:23","slug":"yvonne-nelson-and-ghanaians-remember-dumsor-vigil","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=215150","title":{"rendered":"Yvonne Nelson and Ghanaians remember Dumsor vigil"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, May, 16, Yvonne Nelson joined a host of Ghanaians to observe the \u2018Dumsor Must Stop\u2019 Vigil, a mammoth protest which she led to give a voice to the hardships that Ghanaians were going through because of the power crisis in the country, which has been christened, Dumsor.<\/p>\n<p>On May 16, 2015, Yvonne Nelson, with some\u00a0other Ghanaians\u00a0marched through the streets of the capital, starting from the University of Ghana overhead bridge.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Y2MeRtGqtZXFAhMyt8yOp7lhB29lNNzE&#8221;]Among celebrities who were part of the campaign were Van Vicker, Prince David Osei, Wanlov Kubolor, Efya, DKB, Barima Sidney, Afia Schwarzenegger, D-Black, Kweku Elliot and others.<\/p>\n<p>On Monday, <strong>Citi FM<\/strong>, Yvonne Nelson and many other Ghanaians posted photos of the vigil to remember the historic protest which some have said pushed government to realise how uncomfortable Ghanaians were with the Dumsor menace.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-lang=\"en\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">A year ago vigil I captured dis <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/yvonnenelsongh\">@yvonnenelsongh<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hashtag\/DumsorMustStop?src=hash\">#DumsorMustStop<\/a> <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/aP5m1PSfiu\">pic.twitter.com\/aP5m1PSfiu<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 #MaryAlbum (@KwameWatzupGh) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/KwameWatzupGh\/status\/732149849613828096\">May 16, 2016<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" async=\"\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<article class=\"post-listing post-46129 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-celebrity-news category-slider-1\">\n<div class=\"post-inner\">\n<div class=\"entry\">\n<p>\u2013<\/p>\n<p>By: Jeffrey Owuraku Sarpong\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/article>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Monday, May, 16, Yvonne Nelson joined a host of Ghanaians to observe the \u2018Dumsor Must Stop\u2019 Vigil, a mammoth protest which she led to give a voice to the hardships that Ghanaians were going through because of the power crisis in the country, which has been christened, Dumsor. On May 16, 2015, Yvonne Nelson, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":215153,"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":[137],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-215150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-showbiz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215150","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=215150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215150\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/215153"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=215150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=215150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=215150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}