{"id":218981,"date":"2016-06-02T06:05:36","date_gmt":"2016-06-02T06:05:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=218981"},"modified":"2016-06-02T06:05:36","modified_gmt":"2016-06-02T06:05:36","slug":"ban-on-drumming-and-noise-making-to-be-lifted-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=218981","title":{"rendered":"Ban on drumming and noise making to be lifted today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The ban on drumming and noise making imposed by the Ga Traditional Council is set to be lifted today [Thursday].<\/p>\n<p>Churches, Mosques, pubs and others in the Ga Mashie Traditional will now be able to engage in their usual activities.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;nqcBUn9QTIV9OWE78xuMEqgsr3lio0tv&#8221;]The Ga Traditional Council in May, placed a ban on drumming and noise making to enable them observe rites leading to the commemoration of their annual Homowo Festival.<\/p>\n<p>The Homowo Festival, meant to&#8221;hoot at hunger,&#8221; is celebrated by the people of the Ga-Dangme Traditional Area.<\/p>\n<p>There were no reported instances of individuals or organizations trying to flout this year&#8217;s ban. There were also no reports of vigilante enforcement of the ban as has been the case in years past.<\/p>\n<p>The Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2016\/04\/27\/homowo-ama-warns-fake-taskforces-over-ban-on-noise-making\/\">\u00a0warned against<\/a><\/strong><\/span> the trend where some private individuals and groups without any authority attempt to enforce the ban on drumming and noise making.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The ban on drumming and noise making imposed by the Ga Traditional Council is set to be lifted today [Thursday]. Churches, Mosques, pubs and others in the Ga Mashie Traditional will now be able to engage in their usual activities. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;nqcBUn9QTIV9OWE78xuMEqgsr3lio0tv&#8221;]The Ga Traditional Council in May, placed a ban on drumming and noise making [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":218987,"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":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218981","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=218981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218981\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/218987"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=218981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=218981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=218981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}