{"id":286535,"date":"2017-01-20T06:10:58","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T06:10:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=286535"},"modified":"2017-01-20T06:10:58","modified_gmt":"2017-01-20T06:10:58","slug":"activities-at-kumasi-to-bounce-back-after-asantehemaas-burial","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=286535","title":{"rendered":"Activities at Kumasi to bounce back after Asantehemaa&#8217;s burial"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Activities \u00a0within the Kumasi metropolis are expected to bounce back \u00a0today, following the burial of the late queen mother, Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem ( the second).<\/p>\n<p>The late queen mother was\u00a0 finally laid to rest yesterday, in line with the customs and traditions of the Ashanti Kingdom.<\/p>\n<p>The final funeral rites which begun last Monday, disrupted both commercial and academic work, but the situation is expected to turnaround beginning today.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, the Kumasi Metropolis was virtually a ghost town as commercial activity was barred from 8pm until 4 am today.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-286292\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/shops-in-kumasi-empty-3.jpg\" alt=\"shops-in-kumasi-empty-3\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Transport operators who ply the Accra Kumasi route recorded low patronage at the various stations in Accra due to the\u00a0the ban on trading activities by the Asantehene.<\/p>\n<p>With the funeral rites now over, it is anticipated that things will return to normalcy.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-286307\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/rawlings-at-asantehemaa-burial-5.jpg\" alt=\"rawlings-at-asantehemaa-burial-5\" width=\"819\" height=\"615\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The four day funeral rites, saw President Akufo- Addo and other dignitaries pay their last respect to Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem ( the second) who died \u00a0in November last\u00a0 year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Pearl Akanya Ofori\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Activities \u00a0within the Kumasi metropolis are expected to bounce back \u00a0today, following the burial of the late queen mother, Nana Afia Kobi Serwaa Ampem ( the second). The late queen mother was\u00a0 finally laid to rest yesterday, in line with the customs and traditions of the Ashanti Kingdom. The final funeral rites which begun last [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"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":[8,3230,3,1980],"class_list":["post-286535","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-akufo-addo","tag-asantehemaa-burial","tag-ghana-news","tag-rawlings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286535","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=286535"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/286535\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=286535"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=286535"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=286535"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}