{"id":1068515,"date":"2022-04-27T12:17:03","date_gmt":"2022-04-27T12:17:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/27\/loc-aboakyer-festival-strike-deal\/"},"modified":"2022-04-27T12:17:03","modified_gmt":"2022-04-27T12:17:03","slug":"loc-aboakyer-festival-strike-deal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/04\/27\/loc-aboakyer-festival-strike-deal\/","title":{"rendered":"LOC, Aboakyer Festival Strike Deal"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>LOC members in a pose with the traditional ruler (seated)<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the 13th African Games \u2013 Accra 2023 \u2013 has partnered the 2022 Aboakyer Festival.<\/p>\n<p>The historic festival is a bushbuck hunting event celebrated by the people of Winneba in the Central Region of Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>Last Sunday, members of the LOC, led by the Executive Chairman, Kwaku Ofosu-Asare, paid a courtesy call on the Paramount Chief of the Effutu Traditional Area, Neenyi Ghartey VII.<\/p>\n<p>Ofosu-Asare and his team explained the mandate of the LOC to the Paramount Chief during the visit ahead of the 2022 Aboakyer Festival.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the LOC has partnered with the Ghana Tennis Federation to organise the 2022 Aboakyer Tennis Open from May 6 to May 9.<\/p>\n<p>Throwing light on the importance of the age-long festival, the Executive Chairman believes it will offer the platform for sensitisation, and whip up the interest ahead of the 2023 Games.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s celebration is set to officially commence on the first Saturday of May.<\/p>\n<p><strong>From The Sports Desk<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LOC members in a pose with the traditional ruler (seated) The Local Organising Committee (LOC) for the 13th African Games \u2013 Accra 2023 \u2013 has partnered the 2022 Aboakyer Festival. The historic festival is a bushbuck hunting event celebrated by the people of Winneba in the Central Region of Ghana. Last Sunday, members of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1068516,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[10425,807,7114,7048,186],"class_list":["post-1068515","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-aboakyer","tag-deal","tag-festival","tag-loc","tag-strike"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068515","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=1068515"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1068515\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1068515"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1068515"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1068515"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}