{"id":393659,"date":"2018-01-22T06:07:50","date_gmt":"2018-01-22T06:07:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=393659"},"modified":"2018-01-24T18:36:52","modified_gmt":"2018-01-24T18:36:52","slug":"the-poor-state-of-the-accra-sports-stadium-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=393659","title":{"rendered":"The poor state of the Accra Sports Stadium [Photos]"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Accra Sports Stadium was first inaugurated in 1952, and later renamed after Ghana\u2019s first sports administrator, Ohene Djan in 2004.<\/p>\n

It was however reverted to its original name; Accra Sports Stadium without a ceremony following some controversies.<\/p>\n

The stadium was last renovated in 2008 at a cost of $31 million to be used as one of the stadia for the 2008\u00a0African Cup of Nations when Ghana hosted the continental tournament.<\/p>\n

Unfortunately, the stadium has been left to rot, becoming a death trap for patrons including government leaders who grace special sporting events there.<\/p>\n

Here are some photos of the current state of the stadium.<\/p>\n

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By: Roberta Edem Abbeyquaye\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Accra Sports Stadium was first inaugurated in 1952, and later renamed after Ghana\u2019s first sports administrator, Ohene Djan in 2004. It was however reverted to its original name; Accra Sports Stadium without a ceremony following some controversies. The stadium was last renovated in 2008 at a cost of $31 million to be used as […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":393712,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[142,11],"tags":[8176,3],"class_list":["post-393659","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-football","category-top-stories","tag-accra-sports-stadium","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393659","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=393659"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/393659\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/393712"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=393659"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=393659"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=393659"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}