{"id":253468,"date":"2016-09-30T06:00:39","date_gmt":"2016-09-30T06:00:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=253468"},"modified":"2016-09-30T06:00:39","modified_gmt":"2016-09-30T06:00:39","slug":"living-open-defecation-a-feature-by-citi-fms-umaru-sanda","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=253468","title":{"rendered":"Living Open Defecation: A feature by Citi FM&#8217;s Umaru Sanda"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana is poised to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, MDGs. Goal 6 of the SDGs estimates that, by 2030, there should be an end to open defecation.<\/p>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s President, John Dramani Mahama, has said the country is likely to\u00a0achieve this goal earlier by 2025.<\/p>\n<p>But how can the country attain this goal when persons engaged in open defecation see it as a lifestyle?<\/p>\n<p>In the documentary below titled: Living Open Defecation, <strong>Citi FM<\/strong>\u2019s Umaru Sanda Amadu visits La in Accra, to find out how serious the practice\u00a0is; and why it will not end anytime soon.<\/p>\n<p>This Production is with funding support from\u00a0Media Foundation\u00a0for West Africa and UNDP Ghana.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/285284427&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana is poised to meet the Sustainable Development Goals, MDGs. Goal 6 of the SDGs estimates that, by 2030, there should be an end to open defecation. Ghana\u2019s President, John Dramani Mahama, has said the country is likely to\u00a0achieve this goal earlier by 2025. But how can the country attain this goal when persons engaged [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":253479,"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":[5,11],"tags":[3,692],"class_list":["post-253468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-open-defecation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253468","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=253468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/253479"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=253468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=253468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=253468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}