{"id":238621,"date":"2016-08-12T11:55:48","date_gmt":"2016-08-12T11:55:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=238621"},"modified":"2016-08-12T11:55:48","modified_gmt":"2016-08-12T11:55:48","slug":"traders-besiege-kumasi-gra-office-over-shop-closures-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=238621","title":{"rendered":"Traders besiege Kumasi GRA office over shop closures\u00a0[Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Traders at Roman Hill, a suburb of Kumasi, have besieged the premises of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) office in Ashtown\u00a0 in the Ashanti Region, to protest the Authority\u2019s decision to lock up their shops.<\/p>\n<p>According to<strong> Citi News\u2019<\/strong> Ashanti Regional correspondent, Hawa Iddrisu, over 100 shops were locked up by the GRA because traders have failed to pay Value Added Tax (VAT) for the past two years.<\/p>\n<p>She said the traders, who were clad in red and black, were chanting war songs.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-238635\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/10cc1d2c-9c46-47d1-9fbb-71fcecc48cec-2.jpg\" alt=\"10cc1d2c-9c46-47d1-9fbb-71fcecc48cec\" width=\"649\" height=\"365\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She said security personnel were later sent to the area to restore calm.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-238632\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/08\/84fc0145-0755-4e89-86f8-42381ac2543f-1.jpg\" alt=\"84fc0145-0755-4e89-86f8-42381ac2543f\" width=\"695\" height=\"391\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The traders reportedly embarked on a similar exercise on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Traders at Roman Hill, a suburb of Kumasi, have besieged the premises of the Ghana Revenue Authority (GRA) office in Ashtown\u00a0 in the Ashanti Region, to protest the Authority\u2019s decision to lock up their shops. According to Citi News\u2019 Ashanti Regional correspondent, Hawa Iddrisu, over 100 shops were locked up by the GRA because traders [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":238634,"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],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-238621","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238621","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=238621"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/238621\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/238634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=238621"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=238621"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=238621"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}