{"id":96072,"date":"2015-03-03T15:21:21","date_gmt":"2015-03-03T15:21:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=96072"},"modified":"2015-03-03T14:26:31","modified_gmt":"2015-03-03T14:26:31","slug":"court-orders-krobo-chiefs-youth-to-postpone-demo-against-ec","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=96072","title":{"rendered":"Court orders Krobo Chiefs, youth to postpone demo against EC\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A Koforidua High Court has barred the\u00a0the chiefs and people of the Manya Krobo Traditional area from demonstrating against the Electoral Commission (EC).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;qbGvn8ZkpWJarj44YomcJF1si4T3kvC5&#8243;]The chiefs and people of the area accused the EC of illegally conducting district\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/contextly.com\/redirect\/?id=bQlFUoXAn4:73446:2534:13::yxkv3R0V9gLHrYauWJBE8WacA:only_previous:54f5b11857b738-43911623\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>assembly elections<\/strong><\/a><\/span> in the Natriku electoral area in the Shai Osudoku District of the Greater Accra Region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">They subsequently threatened to embark on the demonstration\u00a0over what they described as a breach of the Constitution.<\/p>\n<p>The restraining order which was served on three respondents including Nene Asada Ahor I, Chief of Akuse and PRO of the Manya Krobo Traditional Council, prohibited the organization of any of such activity in the Krobo area from March 1st\u00a0to 15, 2015.<\/p>\n<p>No reason has however been given by the Police or the Court for the restraining order.<\/p>\n<p>In a related development, the youth in the <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/12\/12\/election-lower-manya-youth-welcomes-decision\/#sthash.zf80dDsj.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>Lower Manya Krobo, Kloma Gbi<\/strong><\/a><\/span> earlier welcomed a\u00a0decision by the EC, to exclude the Municipality from theDistrict Assembly and Unit Committee Elections.<\/p>\n<p>The EC has explained that the exemption is due to a constitutional provision that allows for elections in a four-year period for assembly members.<\/p>\n<p>The EC had explained that the exemption was due to a constitutional provision that allows for elections in a four-year period for assembly members.<\/p>\n<p>According to the EC members in the Lower Manya Krobo assembly were elected about two years ago hence; the exemption.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Kojo Agyemang\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Koforidua High Court has barred the\u00a0the chiefs and people of the Manya Krobo Traditional area from demonstrating against the Electoral Commission (EC). [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;qbGvn8ZkpWJarj44YomcJF1si4T3kvC5&#8243;]The chiefs and people of the area accused the EC of illegally conducting district\u00a0assembly elections in the Natriku electoral area in the Shai Osudoku District of the Greater Accra Region. They [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":45102,"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":[38,17],"class_list":["post-96072","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96072","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96072"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96072\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/45102"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96072"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96072"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96072"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}