{"id":30382,"date":"2014-07-08T10:35:50","date_gmt":"2014-07-08T10:35:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=30382"},"modified":"2014-07-08T10:35:50","modified_gmt":"2014-07-08T10:35:50","slug":"audio-fishermen-and-fishmongers-threaten-to-boycott-2016-elections-if","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=30382","title":{"rendered":"[Audio] Fishermen and fishmongers threaten to boycott 2016 elections if\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fishermen and fishmongers at Teshie Krobo a fishing community in Accra are threatening to boycott the 2016 elections if government does not immediately find solutions to issues they say are\u00a0hurting their business.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/FISH-002.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-30388\" alt=\"FISH 002\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/FISH-002.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/FISH-002.jpg 640w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/07\/FISH-002-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a>The Fishermen and Fishmongers numbering over 200 told <b>Citi News\u2019<\/b>, Pearl Akanya Ofori that the high cost of fishing equipment, hikes in the price of pre-mix fuel, the involvement of both locals and foreigners in light fishing are some of the issues they want government to address.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click play to listen to full report.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/157789571&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;visual=true\" height=\"450\" width=\"100%\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Pearl Akanya Ofori\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fishermen and fishmongers at Teshie Krobo a fishing community in Accra are threatening to boycott the 2016 elections if government does not immediately find solutions to issues they say are\u00a0hurting their business. The Fishermen and Fishmongers numbering over 200 told Citi News\u2019, Pearl Akanya Ofori that the high cost of fishing equipment, hikes in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":30387,"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":[2],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-30382","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30382","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=30382"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30382\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/30387"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30382"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30382"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30382"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}