{"id":30697,"date":"2014-07-09T13:05:47","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T13:05:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=30697"},"modified":"2014-07-09T17:44:42","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T17:44:42","slug":"street-protests-must-be-intensified-budu-koomson","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=30697","title":{"rendered":"Street protests must be intensified &#8211; Budu Koomson"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0CEO of Nexus consulting limited\u00a0and former\u00a0Chief Operations Officer of UT Group, Captain Rtd. Budu Koomson is urging Ghanaians to intensify their street protests against what he terms &#8220;government\u2019s incompetence.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the street protests will compel government to work harder and deliver improved services and development to Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Accra based Oman FM, Captain Koomson said government has over the years failed to perform because of the docility of Ghanaians.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs a people we deserve what we get, if we are docile, they[government] will continue to do what they are doing\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Captain Koomson described Ghanaians \u201cas too weak, selfish, subservient and beggar of anything and everything.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He further stated that Ghanaians \u00a0are so irresponsible corrupt and ,cheat at the slightest opportunity and lack the ability to challenge their political leaders.<\/p>\n<p>He believes government\u2019s mediocrity will not cease until Ghanaians show physical anger .<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe as people need to be more assertive and demand action and retribution,&#8221; Mr. Koomson said.<\/p>\n<p>Government has come under criticism for the country\u2019s current economic challenges.<\/p>\n<p>These challenges include huge budget deficit, continuous fall of the cedi among others.<\/p>\n<p>Some economists have predicted the situation might get worse if the country fails to resort to the International Monetray Fund for a bail out.<\/p>\n<p>A group of protesters who demonstrated on July 1, 2014 against Ghana\u2019s poor economic conditions have threatened to stage more demonstrations if government fails to resolve the economic challenges.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EfeAnsah\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @EfeAnsah<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The\u00a0CEO of Nexus consulting limited\u00a0and former\u00a0Chief Operations Officer of UT Group, Captain Rtd. 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Speaking to Accra based Oman FM, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":23804,"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],"class_list":["post-30697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30697","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=30697"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30697\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}