{"id":393902,"date":"2011-04-24T10:39:27","date_gmt":"2011-04-24T10:39:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/2011\/04\/24\/sir-john-no-rains-on-easter-friday-means-we-have-a-bad-government\/"},"modified":"2011-04-24T10:39:27","modified_gmt":"2011-04-24T10:39:27","slug":"sir-john-no-rains-on-easter-friday-means-we-have-a-bad-government","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/24\/sir-john-no-rains-on-easter-friday-means-we-have-a-bad-government\/","title":{"rendered":"Sir John: No rains on Easter Friday means we have a bad government"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"caption\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/04\/7300sir20john2020020x20220.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Kwadwo Owusu-Afriyie alias \" title=\"Kwadwo Owusu-Afriyie alias \" align=\"left\" \/>The General Secretary for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie (Sir John) has described this year\u2019s Easter festivities as the worse ever experienced on the calendar of the nation because, the country did not wintess the usual Good Friday rains.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to Adom News, Sir John said so far as he can remember, \u201cthe country receives rains from above on Easter Fridays it with thunderstorm but this time nothing of that happened on Easter Friday and so a sign of God\u2019s anger with the nation\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>There was heavy downpour with thunderstorm in Accra and surrounding towns on Holy Saturday through to the night resulting power cuts in most area.<\/p>\n<p>However Sir John said, the rains on every Easter Friday is symbolic as said in Luke 23:35 where the sun was darkened, and the veil of the temple was torn<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> The General Secretary for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie (Sir John) has described this year\u2019s Easter festivities as the worse ever experienced on the calendar of the nation because, the country did not wintess the usual Good Friday rains. Speaking to Adom News, Sir John said so far as he can remember, \u201cthe country receives rains from above on Easter Fridays it with thunderstorm but this time nothing of that happened on Easter Friday and so a sign of God\u2019s anger with the nation\u201d. There was heavy downpour with thunderstorm in Accra and surrounding towns on Holy Saturday through to the night resulting power cuts in most area. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-393902","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.0 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Sir John: No rains on Easter Friday means we have a bad government - Ghanamma.com<\/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:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2011\/04\/24\/sir-john-no-rains-on-easter-friday-means-we-have-a-bad-government\/\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:title\" content=\"Sir John: No rains on Easter Friday means we have a bad government - Ghanamma.com\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:description\" content=\"The General Secretary for the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwadwo Owusu Afriyie (Sir John) has described this year\u2019s Easter festivities as the worse ever experienced on the calendar of the nation because, the country did not wintess the usual Good Friday rains. 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