{"id":296917,"date":"2017-02-25T10:32:09","date_gmt":"2017-02-25T10:32:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=296917"},"modified":"2017-02-25T10:32:09","modified_gmt":"2017-02-25T10:32:09","slug":"odaw-waste-collectors-likely-to-cause-another-flooding-disaster","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=296917","title":{"rendered":"Odaw: Waste collectors likely to cause another flooding disaster"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Accra could be on the verge of another flooding disaster similar to the \u00a0June 3 tragedy, if the activities of garbage collectors in the Odaw River continue without check.<\/p>\n<p>In 2015, government carried out a demolition exercise \u00a0along the Odaw River, to pave way for the dredging of the River to ensure the free flow of water into the sea.<\/p>\n<p>This was one of the many decisions taken to prevent flooding such as the June 3 disaster, but after months of intense dredging, one can boldly say there is much more to be done.<\/p>\n<p>Citi News\u2019 visit to the area indicates that garbage collectors dump refuse in the River while residents there refill the River to create land space for their structures.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Citi News\u2019 Kojo Agyeman has the rest of the story in the report below<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/309334774&amp;color=ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Accra could be on the verge of another flooding disaster similar to the \u00a0June 3 tragedy, if the activities of garbage collectors in the Odaw River continue without check. In 2015, government carried out a demolition exercise \u00a0along the Odaw River, to pave way for the dredging of the River to ensure the free flow [&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":[],"class_list":["post-296917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296917","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=296917"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/296917\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=296917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=296917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=296917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}