{"id":70451,"date":"2019-06-21T05:56:15","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T05:56:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/?p=70451"},"modified":"2019-06-21T05:56:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T05:56:15","slug":"agbogbloshie-residents-register-displeasure-over-bad-roads-give-2-week-ultimatum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/general\/agbogbloshie-residents-register-displeasure-over-bad-roads-give-2-week-ultimatum\/2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Agbogbloshie residents register displeasure over bad roads; Give 2-week ultimatum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">The Concerned Traders and Residents of Agbogbloshie have issued a two week ultimatum to government to reconstruct the main \u00a0road linking Agbogbloshie market from the Central Mosque through to Galloway.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">At a news conference in Accra, the spokesperson for the group, Frederick Opoku said they will go on demonstration if government fails to to heed to their plea. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">Mr. Opoku said due to the bad nature of the road, they have lost huge sums of money. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">Some traders and residents were clad in red attire and headbands to register their displeasure about the state of affairs in the agbogbloshie enclave.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">The group comprised residents, commercial drivers, vegetable traders, chiefs and market executives.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">The Spokesperson of the group, Frederick Opoku said since 1981 the road has not seen any facelift upon the economic\u00a0<\/span><span class=\"s1\">value it presents. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">He added that the state of the road has collapsed many jobs and rendered many jobless.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">Agbogbloshie lies on the banks of the Korle Lagoon, northwest of Accra&#8217;s Central Business District.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">It is one of many slums around the area, and developed in the early 1990s during the tribal wars in Northern Ghana, when the government relocated refugees with intentions of repatriating them after the war. <\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">This plan fell through, and currently, around 100,000 Ghanaians, including refugees, live in Agbogbloshie.<\/span><\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\" style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span class=\"s1\">Story filed by Bridget Amewudo and Hannah Abugri.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Concerned Traders and Residents of Agbogbloshie have issued a two week ultimatum to government to reconstruct the main \u00a0road linking Agbogbloshie market from the Central Mosque through to Galloway. At a news conference in Accra, the spokesperson for the group, Frederick Opoku said they will go on demonstration if government fails to to heed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":70452,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,25],"tags":[],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70451"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=70451"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/70451\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=70451"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=70451"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.gbcghanaonline.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=70451"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}