{"id":2818,"date":"2014-02-27T19:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-02-27T19:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=2818"},"modified":"2014-02-28T09:24:18","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T09:24:18","slug":"rawlings-accra-mall-incident-backward","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=2818","title":{"rendered":"Rawlings: Accra mall incident backward"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2819\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2819\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/rawlings-nice.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-2819\" alt=\"Ex-President Rawlings\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/rawlings-nice.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"223\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2819\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ex-President Rawlings<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Ghana\u2019s former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings has strongly condemned the degrading ordeal suffered by three female students who were reportedly caught \u00a0shoplifting from a clothing store at the Accra Shopping Mall.<\/p>\n<p>A statement released from his office stated that \u201cwhile we must not condone any form of wrongdoing, I find it outrageous that these young Ghanaians were subjected to such humiliating abuse and in the full glare of the general public.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He noted that the act \u201cbrings into serious question the shop\u2019s policy on handling shoplifting. Of particular concern is the apparent condoning <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"cdc83f17-6202-4f1c-b2cd-dac78f379766\">behaviour<\/span> of the shop manager and security on duty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The ex-President described the act as \u201cdehumanizing treatment of our people is backward, primitive and defeats our efforts at restoring the moral fiber of society.<\/p>\n<p>He welcomed the decision of the police to investigate this matter and urged that the perpetrators of this uncivilized <span class=\"GINGER_SOFTWARE_mark\" id=\"eca521df-d3e4-4bdc-a3e0-b132faa3d050\">behaviour<\/span> must also be brought to book.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ghana\u2019s former President, Flt Lt Jerry John Rawlings has strongly condemned the degrading ordeal suffered by three female students who were reportedly caught \u00a0shoplifting from a clothing store at the Accra Shopping Mall. A statement released from his office stated that \u201cwhile we must not condone any form of wrongdoing, I find it outrageous that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2877,"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":[],"tags":[43,38,17],"class_list":["post-2818","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2818"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2818\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2877"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2818"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2818"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2818"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}