{"id":1034417,"date":"2022-03-25T17:21:09","date_gmt":"2022-03-25T17:21:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/25\/minority-serves-notice-to-picket-kia\/"},"modified":"2022-03-25T17:21:09","modified_gmt":"2022-03-25T17:21:09","slug":"minority-serves-notice-to-picket-kia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/03\/25\/minority-serves-notice-to-picket-kia\/","title":{"rendered":"Minority serves notice to picket KIA"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"470\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/image-3-696x470.png\"   alt=\"Covid-19 test\" title=\"Covid-19 test\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Covid-19 test<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Minority in Parliament has served notice of series of picketing at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) in protest of fees travellers pay for Covid-19 testing. <\/p>\n<p>The action, according to them, will begin from Wednesday, March 30, 2022, from 2:00pm to 6:00pm each day.<\/p>\n<p>They are of the view that the fee is illegal, unconscionable, and extortionist, hence their action.<\/p>\n<p>This was contained in a statement signed by the Ranking Members of the Foreign Affairs Committee, Samuel Okudzeto Ablakwa, Roads and Transport Committee; Kwame Agbodza and Health Committee; Kwabena Minister Akandoh.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>This comes a few weeks after former President Mahama in a Facebook post called on the government to cease the $50 compulsory PCR test for travellers who have been vaccinated.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/FOoMIs3X0Ak4Nzy\" alt=\"Image\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>The Minority has vowed to continue with the picketing until a time President Nana Akufo-Addo halts the fee collection.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"pWRieFEGyDw\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Gov\u2019t to reduce margins in petroleum price build-up by Ghc0.15 per litre from April 1 (24-3-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pWRieFEGyDw?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Covid-19 test The Minority in Parliament has served notice of series of picketing at the Kotoka International Airport (KIA) in protest of fees travellers pay for Covid-19 testing. The action, according to them, will begin from Wednesday, March 30, 2022, from 2:00pm to 6:00pm each day. They are of the view that the fee is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1034418,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[549],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1034417","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-lifestyle"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034417","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1034417"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1034417\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1034417"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1034417"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1034417"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}