{"id":360152,"date":"2017-10-08T16:30:51","date_gmt":"2017-10-08T16:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=360152"},"modified":"2017-10-08T16:30:51","modified_gmt":"2017-10-08T16:30:51","slug":"ritz-junction-residents-demonstrate-against-gas-filling-stationvideo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=360152","title":{"rendered":"Ritz junction residents demonstrate against gas filling station[Video]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Ritz junction in Accra on Sunday staged a demonstration\u00a0 to demand the removal of a <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/10\/07\/legon-students-run-for-their-lives-after-atomic-junction-gas-explosion\/\"><strong>Gas Station<\/strong><\/a><\/span> located in the area.<\/p>\n<p>This comes on the back of a gas explosion at Atomic junction on Saturday, that claimed seven lives and left several others injured.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration began at about 6:00am with over a hundred demonstrators.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;2mdxWSDBELeKkX1l44JeJkQqE5sOSyG0&#8243;]The demonstrators gathered at the Gas Station in the area and refused to allow its operators to open for business.<\/p>\n<p>It took the timely intervention of the Police to restore calm in the area.<\/p>\n<p>According to an eyewitness, \u201cthey (the demonstrators) arrived here at about 6am numbering about a hundred. They were demonstrating that they wouldn\u2019t allow the Gas Station to operate today. This made the police rush here. On their arrival, they persuaded the demonstrators to calm down, and explained that because the tank has been filled with LPG gas, they should exercise patience till all of it is sold and will not be refilled.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Click below for the demonstration video:\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<div style=\"width: 848px;\" class=\"wp-video\"><video class=\"wp-video-shortcode\" id=\"video-360152-1\" width=\"848\" height=\"480\" preload=\"metadata\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"video\/mp4\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/demo-against-gas-filling-station1.mp4?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/demo-against-gas-filling-station1.mp4\">http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/demo-against-gas-filling-station1.mp4<\/a><\/video><\/div>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Michael Ogbodu\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents of Ritz junction in Accra on Sunday staged a demonstration\u00a0 to demand the removal of a Gas Station located in the area. This comes on the back of a gas explosion at Atomic junction on Saturday, that claimed seven lives and left several others injured. The demonstration began at about 6:00am with over a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"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":[5,11],"tags":[616,511,3],"class_list":["post-360152","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories","tag-atomic-junction","tag-gas-explosion","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360152","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}