{"id":8097,"date":"2014-03-24T09:59:27","date_gmt":"2014-03-24T09:59:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=8097"},"modified":"2014-03-24T10:15:57","modified_gmt":"2014-03-24T10:15:57","slug":"trotro-drivers-in-kumasi-on-strike","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=8097","title":{"rendered":"Trotro drivers in Kumasi on strike"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/on-strike-sign1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-6142\" alt=\"on-strike-sign1\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/on-strike-sign1-300x180.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"180\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/on-strike-sign1-300x180.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/on-strike-sign1.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>\u00a0Trotro drivers \u00a0plying the Tech junction to the central business district in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region have embarked on a strike.<\/p>\n<p>According<strong>\u00a0<\/strong>to <strong>Citi FM&#8217;s <\/strong>Ashanti regional correspondent\u00a0Hawa Iddrisu, the drivers have embarked on a strike to protest what they describe as extortion by the Police in the region.<\/p>\n<p>The strike, she said, \u00a0has left some residents in the area stranded and frustrated.<\/p>\n<p>She revealed that \u201cover thousands of people have gathered at the Tech junction and are very frustrated,&#8221; \u00a0adding that the passengers &#8220;don\u2019t even know where to get a bus to get to their destination.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police officers are refusing to give the drivers a bus terminal to offload passengers on board\u201d adding that the problem is causing unnecessary traffic in the region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>She noted that in that regard, the drivers in the region are therefore asking the city authorities to talk to the police officers to curb the incidence of extortion in the region.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0Trotro drivers \u00a0plying the Tech junction to the central business district in Kumasi in the Ashanti Region have embarked on a strike. According\u00a0to Citi FM&#8217;s Ashanti regional correspondent\u00a0Hawa Iddrisu, the drivers have embarked on a strike to protest what they describe as extortion by the Police in the region. The strike, she said, \u00a0has left [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":8132,"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-8097","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\/8097","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=8097"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8097\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/8132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8097"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8097"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8097"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}