{"id":70837,"date":"2014-12-03T11:36:02","date_gmt":"2014-12-03T11:36:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=70837"},"modified":"2014-12-03T11:42:50","modified_gmt":"2014-12-03T11:42:50","slug":"taxi-drivers-demonstrate-against-government-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=70837","title":{"rendered":"Taxi Drivers&#8217; demonstrate against government [Pictures]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Scores of taxi drivers are currently demonstrating to protest what they describe as hardship imposed on them due to recent fuel price hikes.<\/p>\n<p>The demonstration is to register their displeasure with a recent introduction of a 17.5 tax on petroleum products.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Demo-Taxi-Drivers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-70836\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Demo-Taxi-Drivers.jpg\" alt=\"Demo Taxi Drivers\" width=\"600\" height=\"400\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Demo-Taxi-Drivers.jpg 495w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Demo-Taxi-Drivers-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Demo-Taxi-Drivers-5.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70834\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Demo-Taxi-Drivers-5.jpg\" alt=\"Demo Taxi Drivers 5\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Demo-Taxi-Drivers-5.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Demo-Taxi-Drivers-5-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Demo-Taxi-Drivers-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70835\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Demo-Taxi-Drivers-6.jpg\" alt=\"Demo Taxi Drivers 6\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Demo-Taxi-Drivers-6.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Demo-Taxi-Drivers-6-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The demonstration, is under the umbrella union of the \u201c Ghana committed taxi drivers\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Demo-Taxi-Drivers-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-70833\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Demo-Taxi-Drivers-4.jpg\" alt=\"Demo Taxi Drivers 4\" width=\"768\" height=\"512\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Demo-Taxi-Drivers-4.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Demo-Taxi-Drivers-4-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The decision to impose a 17.5 tax on petroleum products has been criticised by many Ghanaians with some calling on government to reverse the decision.<\/p>\n<p>The NPA has however clarified that the imposition will only result in a <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/11\/20\/petroleum-prices-will-go-up-by-only-3-npa\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>3 percent increase in petroleum products.<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Scores of taxi drivers are currently demonstrating to protest what they describe as hardship imposed on them due to recent fuel price hikes. The demonstration is to register their displeasure with a recent introduction of a 17.5 tax on petroleum products. &nbsp; &nbsp; The demonstration, is under the umbrella union of the \u201c Ghana committed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":70832,"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],"class_list":["post-70837","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70837","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=70837"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70837\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70832"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=70837"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=70837"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=70837"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}