{"id":467253,"date":"2018-02-24T15:30:39","date_gmt":"2018-02-24T15:30:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/24\/kennedy-agyapong-proposes-flogging-as-a-means-of-keeping-ghana-clean\/"},"modified":"2018-02-24T15:30:39","modified_gmt":"2018-02-24T15:30:39","slug":"kennedy-agyapong-proposes-flogging-as-a-means-of-keeping-ghana-clean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/24\/kennedy-agyapong-proposes-flogging-as-a-means-of-keeping-ghana-clean\/","title":{"rendered":"Kennedy Agyapong proposes flogging as a means of keeping Ghana clean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/07\/10736430.295.jpg\" alt=\"Kennedy Agyapong Condemns\" title=\"Kennedy Agyapong Condemns\" width=\"295\" height=\"176\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Kennedy Agyapong, MP Assin Central<\/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\/1519486239_96_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has proposed flogging as a means of addressing unclean environments. <\/p>\n<p>According to the popular lawmaker, people who litter the environment should be lashed, to serve as a deterrent to others. <\/p>\n<p>Speaking on Net 2 TV, he went on to say that such an approach would ensure that Accra is kept clean. <\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are always complaining that the city is dirty but the fact is that we are undisciplined. <\/p>\n<p>I was once driving through Tema and I saw some men dumping refuse on the highway. How do you expect the TMA boss or the AMA boss to clear the place\u201d, he wondered. <\/p>\n<p>He went ahead to say that refuse collectors often dump refuse garbage at the roadside, and as such if they arrested and beaten up, they would do the right thing. <\/p>\n<p>The MP went ahead to say that if he ever becomes president of Ghana, such people would be beaten up so that they would change from their ways. <\/p>\n<p>Some people, he said, are naturally undisciplined and are the ones who put President Akufo-Addo\u2019s government in a bad light.<\/p>\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>Kennedy Agyapong, MP Assin Central The Member of Parliament for Assin Central, Kennedy Agyapong has proposed flogging as a means of addressing unclean environments. According to the popular lawmaker, people who litter the environment should be lashed, to serve as a deterrent to others. Speaking on Net 2 TV, he went on to say that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":397819,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-467253","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\/467253","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=467253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/467253\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=467253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=467253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=467253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}