{"id":34575,"date":"2014-07-25T14:01:53","date_gmt":"2014-07-25T14:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=34575"},"modified":"2014-07-25T14:01:53","modified_gmt":"2014-07-25T14:01:53","slug":"accra-compost-plant-resumes-operations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=34575","title":{"rendered":"Accra compost plant resumes operations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Accra Compost and Recycling plant has resumed operations after closing for \u00a0two months.<\/p>\n<p>The Plant was shut down due to government\u2019s failure to release funds for its operations.<\/p>\n<p>Government has for the past two years reneged on its financial commitment to the plant, forcing managers of the plant to shut down and lay off about hundred employees.<\/p>\n<p>But speaking to <b>Citi News<\/b>, the Marketing Manager of the facility, Michael Padi Tuwor confirmed that government had settled about 40% of the debt, enabling the company to re-start operations.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe started receiving waste from the Assemblies since yesterday,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He further expressed management\u2019s commitment to redeploy employees who were laid off.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe promised that this situation was not a permanent one and once we have received payment from government we will call them back.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He was however quick to add that management will rather redeploy its employees gradually than \u201ccalling everyone at a goal.\u201d<\/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 Accra Compost and Recycling plant has resumed operations after closing for \u00a0two months. The Plant was shut down due to government\u2019s failure to release funds for its operations. Government has for the past two years reneged on its financial commitment to the plant, forcing managers of the plant to shut down and lay off [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":34579,"comment_status":"closed","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":[1839,38,17],"class_list":["post-34575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-derek-boateng","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34575","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=34575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34575\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34579"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}