{"id":219614,"date":"2016-06-04T06:00:55","date_gmt":"2016-06-04T06:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=219614"},"modified":"2016-06-04T06:00:55","modified_gmt":"2016-06-04T06:00:55","slug":"june-3rd-disaster-businesses-poorly-protected-from-recurrence-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=219614","title":{"rendered":"June 3rd disaster: Businesses poorly protected from recurrence (Photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"

Businesses that were affected by last year\u2019s June 3rd<\/sup> flood and fire disasters appear to have done little to protect themselves against any possible disaster that may recur.<\/p>\n

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A visit by Citi Business News\u2019<\/strong> Norvan Acquah-Hayford to some of the affected business sites (from the Kwame Nkrumah Circle through to the Graphic Road) a year after the incident, showed that there has not been any significant change regarding the preparedness of the companies in the event of another disaster.<\/p>\n

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Even though the Accra Metropolitan Assembly is desilting the Odaw River, their inability to completely dispose of the waste materials collected, continue to pose a threat to the businesses located within the surrounding areas.<\/p>\n

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Companies such as Rana motors are however putting up measures to relocate so as to avert another loss should a similar disaster recur.<\/p>\n

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Rana motors putting up structures to enable it relocate office along the Graphic Road<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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By: Norvan Acquah-Hayford\/Pius Amihere Eduku\/citibusinessnews.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Businesses that were affected by last year\u2019s June 3rd flood and fire disasters appear to have done little to protect themselves against any possible disaster that may recur. A visit by Citi Business News\u2019 Norvan Acquah-Hayford to some of the affected business sites (from the Kwame Nkrumah Circle through to the Graphic Road) a year […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":219615,"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":[32,171,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219614","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-local-economy","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219614","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=219614"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219614\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/219615"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=219614"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=219614"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=219614"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}