{"id":30708,"date":"2014-07-09T14:25:25","date_gmt":"2014-07-09T14:25:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=30708"},"modified":"2014-07-09T14:25:25","modified_gmt":"2014-07-09T14:25:25","slug":"getfund-contractors-to-demonstrate-on-friday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=30708","title":{"rendered":"GETFund contractors to demonstrate  on Friday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the\u00a0Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) Contractors Association are threatening a massive demonstration against government if\u00a0they are not paid the\u00a0arrears owed them.<\/p>\n<p>According to the contractors, government has failed to\u00a0pay arrears owed them for over one and a half years.<\/p>\n<p>The association which says it is aggrieved over the developments is calling on government to urgently address their concerns.<\/p>\n<p>The GETFund Contractors Association is a group under the Association of Road Contractors, Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>A member and contractor of the association, George Agbo,\u00a0told Citi News that\u00a0\u201con Friday, there\u2019s going to be a demonstration, we\u2019ll go to GETFund from there we will go to the flagstaff house. We will let them know that we need our money.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He went on to say they are ready to use all available means to ensure that government pays them.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe GETFund is responsible for our payments; they are not doing their duties. We just want them to know that enough is enough, now we want to take a step.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By:\u00a0Afua Kesewa Akoto\/<a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">citifmonline.com<\/a>\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of the\u00a0Ghana Education Trust Fund (GETFund) Contractors Association are threatening a massive demonstration against government if\u00a0they are not paid the\u00a0arrears owed them. According to the contractors, government has failed to\u00a0pay arrears owed them for over one and a half years. The association which says it is aggrieved over the developments is calling on government [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":29721,"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":[17],"class_list":["post-30708","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30708","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=30708"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30708\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/29721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=30708"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=30708"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=30708"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}