{"id":6732,"date":"2014-03-17T12:58:26","date_gmt":"2014-03-17T12:58:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=6732"},"modified":"2014-03-17T14:07:09","modified_gmt":"2014-03-17T14:07:09","slug":"dont-demolish-without-my-approval-afotey-agbo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=6732","title":{"rendered":"Don\u2019t demolish without my approval \u2013 Afotey-Agbo"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_6735\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-6735\" style=\"width: 300px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/afotey.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-6735\" alt=\"New Greater Accra Regional Minister, Nii Laryea Afotey-Agbo\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/afotey-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/afotey-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/afotey.jpg 640w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-6735\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">New Greater Accra Regional Minister, Nii Laryea Afotey-Agbo<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Nii Laryea Afotey-Agbo has served notice that he will not tolerate any further demolition exercises in the capital without his approval.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhere demolition is justified, I will approve of it. Where it is not justified and it is not a priority, I will not let it happen,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister begins work as Greater Accra Minister this week after he was moved from the Volta Region.<\/p>\n<p>His comment comes in the wake of recent demolition exercises in the region which has rendered many homeless.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister indicated that he is determined to make a difference adding that he is a \u201cresponsible person\u201d who takes critical look at issues.<\/p>\n<p>Afotey-Agbo continued saying, \u201cI have so much love for people but that doesn&#8217;t also mean that I should allow people to misbehave.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>He told <strong>Citi News<\/strong> he will send communication to all Municipal, Metropolitan and District Chief Executives (MMDCEs) to desist from demolishing any structure within the Region \u201cwithout convincing me or without my knowledge.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The timing of a number of demolitions undertaken across the city \u00a0has caused outrage among citizens.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Efua Idan Osam\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Greater Accra Regional Minister, Nii Laryea Afotey-Agbo has served notice that he will not tolerate any further demolition exercises in the capital without his approval. \u201cWhere demolition is justified, I will approve of it. Where it is not justified and it is not a priority, I will not let it happen,\u201d he said. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":6735,"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":[43,38,17],"class_list":["post-6732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6732","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=6732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6732\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/6735"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=6732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=6732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=6732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}