{"id":268733,"date":"2016-11-15T18:49:44","date_gmt":"2016-11-15T18:49:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=268733"},"modified":"2016-11-15T18:49:44","modified_gmt":"2016-11-15T18:49:44","slug":"atta-akyea-must-apologise-to-us-or-else-krobo-residents-to-nana-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=268733","title":{"rendered":"Atta-Akyea must apologise to us or else&#8230; &#8211; Krobo residents to Nana Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some Residents of Krobo Odumase in the Eastern Region have demanded that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo, compel the NPP MP for Abuakwa South, Samuel\u00a0Atta-Akyea, to apologise to them for comments deemed offensive to Krobo land.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Atta-Akyea is reported to\u00a0made some derogatory remarks on government\u2019s plans to build the Eastern Region University in the area.<\/p>\n<p>This led to the scores of residents marching\u00a0in protest to demand an apology from the Abuakwa South MP today [Tuesday] in the\u00a0Lower Manya Krobo district.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_268716\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-268716\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Klo-protests-agaisnt-Nana-Addo-7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-268716 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Klo-protests-agaisnt-Nana-Addo-7.jpg\" alt=\"klo-protests-agaisnt-nana-addo-7\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-268716\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Protesters marched from Nuaso to the Odumase chief&#8217;s palace<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>According to the protesters, Mr. Atta-Akyea on the floor of Parliament kicked against the establishment of the university and called on Nana Akufo-Addo, who is visiting the area to call him\u00a0to order.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson\u00a0of the demonstrators, Evans Tetteh, recalled Mr. Atta-Akyea\u2019s comments saying, \u201cKrobo land does not deserve a university and if a university is supposed to be built, it is supposed to build in Akyem land. This statement did not go down well with us as a group.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Klo-protests-agaisnt-Nana-Addo-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-268715\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/Klo-protests-agaisnt-Nana-Addo-6.jpg\" alt=\"klo-protests-agaisnt-nana-addo-6\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis demonstration is a peaceful march trying to prompt the tradition council of the said statement made by Atta-Akyea and we are calling on the traditional council that when Nana Akufo-Addo pays a courtesy call on our paramount, they should draw his attention to the statement made by honorable Atta-Akyea and the need for him to apologise to this group and Krobo and in general.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cSo if Atta-Akyea fails to apologise, if Nana Akufo-Addo fails to do the right thing, we will meet as a group and we will decide the way forward,\u201d Mr. Tetteh stated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Residents of Krobo Odumase in the Eastern Region have demanded that the New Patriotic Party (NPP) Flagbearer, Nana Akufo-Addo, compel the NPP MP for Abuakwa South, Samuel\u00a0Atta-Akyea, to apologise to them for comments deemed offensive to Krobo land. Mr. Atta-Akyea is reported to\u00a0made some derogatory remarks on government\u2019s plans to build the Eastern Region [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":268712,"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":[11],"tags":[4386,2356,3,1745,156,56],"class_list":["post-268733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-eastern-region-university","tag-ghana-elections","tag-ghana-news","tag-krobo","tag-nana-addo","tag-npp"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268733","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=268733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/268733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=268733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=268733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=268733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}