{"id":344063,"date":"2017-08-11T12:03:10","date_gmt":"2017-08-11T12:03:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=344063"},"modified":"2017-08-11T12:03:10","modified_gmt":"2017-08-11T12:03:10","slug":"kpone-youth-threaten-demo-over-indiscriminate-sale-of-landskpone-youth-threaten-demo-over-indiscriminate-sale-of-lands","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/08\/kpone-youth-threaten-demo-over-indiscriminate-sale-of-landskpone-youth-threaten-demo-over-indiscriminate-sale-of-lands\/","title":{"rendered":"Kpone youth threaten demo over indiscriminate sale of lands"},"content":{"rendered":"
A group in the Greater Accra Region, known as the Indigenous Youth of Kpone have threatened to embark on a demonstration if \u00a0authorities fail to end the haphazard sale of the Kpone Cemetery land.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”CuviajGjQtHoSDxlWoNf44lvTrEZlDif”]They have also warned those involved in the act to put an immediate stop to it or face their wrath.<\/p>\n
A member of the group who spoke on condition of anonymity said : “this is our cemetery land but it has been encroached by a factory and some new developers who do not have any permit but no one is ready to pull the structure down.\u201d<\/p>\n
He stated that they are planning a demonstration and are in the process of writing a letter to the Assembly and the Police informing them of their plans to demolish the structure.<\/p>\n
Another said: \u201cthis is the only thing we have and I am sure they are planning to sell this one as well and we will resist it with our blood, we will not allow it to happen.”<\/p>\n
\u201cThis is our last resting place and we will make sure we protect it,” he added.<\/p>\n
Residents in Sekondi-Takoradi furious over closure of Cemetery<\/strong><\/p>\n The development follows similar reports about the closure of the Sekondi-Takoradi Cemetery in the Western Region which suggested that the space allocated for burial had been exhausted.<\/p>\n Residents who were notified of the closure on August 7th<\/sup>, 2017, were furious about the decision to close down the cemetery.<\/p>\n Some residents however blamed the closure on encroachment on the cemetery land.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By; Rita Mensah\/citifmonline,com\/Ghana<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A group in the Greater Accra Region, known as the Indigenous Youth of Kpone have threatened to embark on a demonstration if \u00a0authorities fail to end the haphazard sale of the Kpone Cemetery land. [contextly_sidebar id=”CuviajGjQtHoSDxlWoNf44lvTrEZlDif”]They have also warned those involved in the act to put an immediate stop to it or face their wrath. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5,11],"tags":[10102,3,8548],"yoast_head":"\n