{"id":2956,"date":"2014-02-28T13:25:37","date_gmt":"2014-02-28T13:25:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=2956"},"modified":"2014-02-28T13:25:37","modified_gmt":"2014-02-28T13:25:37","slug":"mahama-didnt-condemn-galamsey-taskforce-malor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=2956","title":{"rendered":"Mahama didn\u2019t condemn galamsey taskforce \u2013 Malor"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_2962\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2962\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ben-Dotse-Malor-1024x682.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2962\" alt=\"Ben Dotse Malor\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ben-Dotse-Malor-1024x682-300x199.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ben-Dotse-Malor-1024x682-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/02\/Ben-Dotse-Malor-1024x682.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ben Dotse Malor<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Government has denied reports that President John Mahama has condemned activities of the galamsey taskforce which he set up to fight the illegal activities.<\/p>\n<p>A media report quoted the President as saying; illegal miners are in business to make a living and must not be chased out by the Police and Military.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking in his first radio interview on the <strong>Citi Breakfast Show<\/strong> however, Director of Communication at the Presidency, Ben Dotse Malor said the President rather urged traditional authorities to join forces in combating the activities of the \u2018galamseyers\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>He described the President as a parent \u201cwho has to discipline a child with a cane, not to condone corporal punishment.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Malor bemoaned the current state of the Offin River saying, \u201cthe Offin River basically has been killed. The water which used to be clear\u2026this water is now brown\u201d adding that the President requested that the residents \u201cshouldn\u2019t wait until we get a taskforce.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He commended the progress the President\u2019s taskforce made in checking and possibly minimizing galamsey activities across the country.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government has denied reports that President John Mahama has condemned activities of the galamsey taskforce which he set up to fight the illegal activities. A media report quoted the President as saying; illegal miners are in business to make a living and must not be chased out by the Police and Military. Speaking in his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":2962,"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-2956","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\/2956","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=2956"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2956\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2962"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2956"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2956"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2956"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}