{"id":162703,"date":"2014-02-16T11:00:45","date_gmt":"2014-02-16T11:00:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/kumasi-300-structures-pulled-down-in-ashtown\/"},"modified":"2014-02-16T11:00:45","modified_gmt":"2014-02-16T11:00:45","slug":"kumasi-300-structures-pulled-down-in-ashtown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/02\/16\/kumasi-300-structures-pulled-down-in-ashtown\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumasi: 300 Structures Pulled Down In Ashtown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/img.ghanamma.com\/uploads\/2014\/02\/98b2795514792_980301.jpg\" border=\"1\" style=\"border:1px solid #999; padding:1px; margin-top:2px;\" \/><span class=\"peace_content_text_1\">Close to 300 mostly wooden shops, stalls and kiosks on a government property have been pulled down by the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly at Ashtown near the K.O. Methodist Church in the Ashanti regional capital.<\/p>\n<p>Several hundred Traders have been displaced as a result of the dawn operation.<\/p>\n<p>The squatters claim they were not given any notice of the demolition.<\/p>\n<p>One of the affected traders, Owusu-Ansah, told XYZ News all the affected traders are befuddled by the demolition because the property is in contention at the Court.<\/p>\n<p>He said they were, therefore, taken by surprise when Soldiers and Police Officer stormed the area at dawn to bulldoze down all their structures.<\/p>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Close to 300 mostly wooden shops, stalls and kiosks on a government property have been pulled down by the Kumasi Metropolitan&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-162703","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162703","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=162703"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/162703\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=162703"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=162703"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2014\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=162703"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}