{"id":324392,"date":"2017-06-01T13:44:09","date_gmt":"2017-06-01T13:44:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=324392"},"modified":"2017-06-01T13:44:09","modified_gmt":"2017-06-01T13:44:09","slug":"traders-assault-ama-task-force-members-at-circle-interchange","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/traders-assault-ama-task-force-members-at-circle-interchange\/","title":{"rendered":"Traders assault AMA task-force members at Circle Interchange"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Four officials of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) working at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle interchange in Accra, have been attacked by some angry traders.<\/p>\n<p>The traders unleashed their physical aggression on the officials when they tried to evict them from the pavement on Tuesday evening.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;monnkP2klH04ql24Z6DZUI9iXDZtDoDB&#8221;]One of the victims, Yunus Hamza, told <strong>Citi News<\/strong>\u00a0that most of their attackers were drivers of the VIP station who have vowed to resist any attempt to evict the hawkers.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThree days ago at about 9:00am while on their usual patrol, we saw someone selling on the pavement and some drivers seated on a bench across the pavement. When we approached them and told them it was wrong, another driver came from the station and told us that they have been instructed to beat anyone who attempts to evict them mercilessly,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-324396\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/AMA-personnel-assaulted-2.jpg\" alt=\"ama-personnel-assaulted-2\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" \/><\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoments after, our boss came around and confronted the same people, one of the drivers stuck his arm with a log. Our boss told us to return because he was sensing danger. We were just about to leave when more drivers came around and begun pelting us with stones. One of them came with a brick and hit my chin with it. I had part of a tooth broken because of that,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>According to Hamza, the police say they have arrested one person in connection with the incident.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe reported to the Kaneshie Police and wrote our statement on Wednesday. We are told they\u2019ve arrested two people, but we are yet to see them,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-324361\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/Numo-Blafo.jpg\" alt=\"numo-blafo\" width=\"600\" height=\"401\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Public Relations Officer of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA), Numo Blafo II, who spoke to <strong>Citi News<\/strong> on the matter, condemned the incident, and called on the media to support the assembly fight such happenings.<\/p>\n<p>He said one of the victims was currently in a critical condition.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTwo of them are not here, one is in a critical condition,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>He said his outfit would not retreat in its operation to rid the pavements of hawkers due to the challenges it poses to the management of the city.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Anas Seidu\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Four officials of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) working at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle interchange in Accra, have been attacked by some angry traders. The traders unleashed their physical aggression on the officials when they tried to evict them from the pavement on Tuesday evening. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;monnkP2klH04ql24Z6DZUI9iXDZtDoDB&#8221;]One of the victims, Yunus Hamza, told Citi News\u00a0that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[11],"tags":[119,7678,3],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v20.6 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Traders assault AMA task-force members at Circle Interchange - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/traders-assault-ama-task-force-members-at-circle-interchange\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Traders assault AMA task-force members at Circle Interchange - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Four officials of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) working at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle interchange in Accra, have been attacked by some angry traders. The traders unleashed their physical aggression on the officials when they tried to evict them from the pavement on Tuesday evening. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;monnkP2klH04ql24Z6DZUI9iXDZtDoDB&#8221;]One of the victims, Yunus Hamza, told Citi News\u00a0that [&hellip;]\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/traders-assault-ama-task-force-members-at-circle-interchange\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/citi97.3\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2017-06-01T13:44:09+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/AMA-personnel-assaulted-2.jpg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Kojo Akoto Boateng\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@citi973\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@citi973\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Kojo Akoto Boateng\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"2 minutes\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\/\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"WebPage\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/traders-assault-ama-task-force-members-at-circle-interchange\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/traders-assault-ama-task-force-members-at-circle-interchange\/\",\"name\":\"Traders assault AMA task-force members at Circle Interchange - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#website\"},\"datePublished\":\"2017-06-01T13:44:09+00:00\",\"dateModified\":\"2017-06-01T13:44:09+00:00\",\"author\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1642ef473fe39bf0c4e2f2f252678eb1\"},\"breadcrumb\":{\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/traders-assault-ama-task-force-members-at-circle-interchange\/#breadcrumb\"},\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"ReadAction\",\"target\":[\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/traders-assault-ama-task-force-members-at-circle-interchange\/\"]}]},{\"@type\":\"BreadcrumbList\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/traders-assault-ama-task-force-members-at-circle-interchange\/#breadcrumb\",\"itemListElement\":[{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":1,\"name\":\"Home\",\"item\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/\"},{\"@type\":\"ListItem\",\"position\":2,\"name\":\"Traders assault AMA task-force members at Circle Interchange\"}]},{\"@type\":\"WebSite\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#website\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/\",\"name\":\"Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always\",\"description\":\"Ghana News | Ghana Politics | Ghana Soccer | Ghana Showbiz\",\"potentialAction\":[{\"@type\":\"SearchAction\",\"target\":{\"@type\":\"EntryPoint\",\"urlTemplate\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?s={search_term_string}\"},\"query-input\":\"required name=search_term_string\"}],\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\"},{\"@type\":\"Person\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1642ef473fe39bf0c4e2f2f252678eb1\",\"name\":\"Kojo Akoto Boateng\",\"image\":{\"@type\":\"ImageObject\",\"inLanguage\":\"en-US\",\"@id\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/\",\"url\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ba51f5385119e83762c67ecd6aa410ab?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"contentUrl\":\"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ba51f5385119e83762c67ecd6aa410ab?s=96&d=mm&r=g\",\"caption\":\"Kojo Akoto Boateng\"},\"url\":\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/author\/kojo\/\"}]}<\/script>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Traders assault AMA task-force members at Circle Interchange - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/traders-assault-ama-task-force-members-at-circle-interchange\/","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Traders assault AMA task-force members at Circle Interchange - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always","og_description":"Four officials of the Accra Metropolitan Assembly (AMA) working at the Kwame Nkrumah Circle interchange in Accra, have been attacked by some angry traders. The traders unleashed their physical aggression on the officials when they tried to evict them from the pavement on Tuesday evening. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;monnkP2klH04ql24Z6DZUI9iXDZtDoDB&#8221;]One of the victims, Yunus Hamza, told Citi News\u00a0that [&hellip;]","og_url":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/traders-assault-ama-task-force-members-at-circle-interchange\/","og_site_name":"Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always","article_publisher":"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/citi97.3","article_published_time":"2017-06-01T13:44:09+00:00","og_image":[{"url":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/06\/AMA-personnel-assaulted-2.jpg"}],"author":"Kojo Akoto Boateng","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","twitter_creator":"@citi973","twitter_site":"@citi973","twitter_misc":{"Written by":"Kojo Akoto Boateng","Est. reading time":"2 minutes"},"schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/traders-assault-ama-task-force-members-at-circle-interchange\/","url":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/traders-assault-ama-task-force-members-at-circle-interchange\/","name":"Traders assault AMA task-force members at Circle Interchange - Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#website"},"datePublished":"2017-06-01T13:44:09+00:00","dateModified":"2017-06-01T13:44:09+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1642ef473fe39bf0c4e2f2f252678eb1"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/traders-assault-ama-task-force-members-at-circle-interchange\/#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/traders-assault-ama-task-force-members-at-circle-interchange\/"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/06\/traders-assault-ama-task-force-members-at-circle-interchange\/#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Traders assault AMA task-force members at Circle Interchange"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#website","url":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/","name":"Citi 97.3 FM - Relevant Radio. Always","description":"Ghana News | Ghana Politics | Ghana Soccer | Ghana Showbiz","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":"required name=search_term_string"}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#\/schema\/person\/1642ef473fe39bf0c4e2f2f252678eb1","name":"Kojo Akoto Boateng","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ba51f5385119e83762c67ecd6aa410ab?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/ba51f5385119e83762c67ecd6aa410ab?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"Kojo Akoto Boateng"},"url":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/author\/kojo\/"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324392"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=324392"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/324392\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=324392"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=324392"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=324392"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}