{"id":462463,"date":"2018-02-07T22:21:26","date_gmt":"2018-02-07T22:21:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/07\/stop-foase-chaos-now-minister\/"},"modified":"2018-02-07T22:21:26","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T22:21:26","slug":"stop-foase-chaos-now-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/07\/stop-foase-chaos-now-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Stop Foase chaos now \u2013 Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Wednesday,  7 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>classfmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-07<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/13163210.295.jpg\" alt=\"Ofoase Riots\" title=\"Ofoase Riots\" width=\"295\" height=\"184\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>There was tension at Foase on Wednesday as angry youth locked up the District Chief Executive<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125817929577\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125817929577\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1518042086_610_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\"> Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah, has sent a signal that the security agencies in the region will ensure an end to the chaos caused by some rampaging youth who are protesting the relocation of the district capital of Atwima Kwanwoma from Foase to Twedie.<\/p>\n<p>There was tension at Foase on Wednesday, 7 February 2018, as angry youth locked up the District Chief Executive (DCE), Nana Okyere Tawiah, in his office amidst burning of car tyres.<\/p>\n<p>Responding to a question by Jonas Ofori-Yeboah on Class91.3FM\u2019s 505 news programme, the Minister said: \u201cWe will handle\u201d the turmoil.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll what we need to do is to ensure that the chaos there does not escalate. They have to stop it immediately,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>He pointed out that the decision to relocate the capital was based on a court ruling, so, if the youth and the people of the town have any grievances, they should go to the court for redress.<\/p>\n<p>Adehye FM\u2019s Owoahene Addai Mununkum, who visited Foase, reported that hundreds of military and police personnel had been deployed to the town to forestall any disturbances.<\/p>\n<p>It took the intervention of the police who had to fire tear gas and warning shots to disperse the irate youth and ensure calm.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 31 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Wednesday, 7 February 2018 Source: classfmonline.com 2018-02-07 There was tension at Foase on Wednesday as angry youth locked up the District Chief Executive Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah, has sent a signal that the security agencies in the region will ensure an end to the chaos caused by some rampaging youth [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":462464,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-462463","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=462463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462463\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}