{"id":271489,"date":"2016-11-25T09:00:48","date_gmt":"2016-11-25T09:00:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=271489"},"modified":"2016-11-25T09:00:48","modified_gmt":"2016-11-25T09:00:48","slug":"kumasi-residents-upset-with-mahamas-security-team","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=271489","title":{"rendered":"Kumasi residents upset with Mahama&#8217;s security team"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reports indicate that confusion nearly broke out at the Manhyia Palace between President John Mahama\u2019s security detail and some mourners at the one-week celebration of the death of the queen-mother of the Ashanti Kingdom, Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II.<\/p>\n<p>Hundreds of sympathisers had converged on the Manhyia Palace to mark the\u00a0one-week celebration.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/31107743361_b50c0d5158_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-271506\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/31107743361_b50c0d5158_z.jpg\" alt=\"31107743361_b50c0d5158_z\" width=\"640\" height=\"427\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Some mourners were seen making the New Patriotic Party&#8217;s (NPP) change sign when President John Mahama arrived on the grounds.<\/p>\n<p>That reportedly prompted the President\u2019s security detail to step in to protect him. But some of the mourners claimed one of the President&#8217;s security officials drew a gun at the crowd and the action angered some of them.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We are all here mourning, not to fight but they want to use the occasion for a political campaign and we will not allow that,&#8221; one angry resident stated.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Suddenly one of President Mahama\u2019s security details pulled out a gun threatening to shoot at us. I saw the gun. We won\u2019t sit and let them come to our land and threaten us. No matter what they do, change is coming.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/30853867590_abae976f0d_z.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-271507\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/11\/30853867590_abae976f0d_z.jpg\" alt=\"Mahama\" width=\"637\" height=\"447\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Apart from the people from the region, scores of government officials and politicians have also joined the chiefs to mourn with the Asantehene Otumfuo Osei Tutu.<\/p>\n<p>The NPP Presidential Candidate, Nana Akufo-Addo was also at Manhyia to join Asanteman mourn the death of Nana Afia Serwaa Kobi.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Caleb Kudah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reports indicate that confusion nearly broke out at the Manhyia Palace between President John Mahama\u2019s security detail and some mourners at the one-week celebration of the death of the queen-mother of the Ashanti Kingdom, Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem II. Hundreds of sympathisers had converged on the Manhyia Palace to mark the\u00a0one-week celebration. Some mourners [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":271588,"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":[2356,3,464,2007,156,56,777],"class_list":["post-271489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-ghana-elections","tag-ghana-news","tag-mahama","tag-manhyia","tag-nana-addo","tag-npp","tag-otumfuo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271489","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=271489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/271489\/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=271489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=271489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=271489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}