{"id":1090551,"date":"2022-05-17T17:24:43","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T17:24:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/17\/it-was-a-waste-of-time\/"},"modified":"2022-05-17T17:24:43","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T17:24:43","slug":"it-was-a-waste-of-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/05\/17\/it-was-a-waste-of-time\/","title":{"rendered":"It was a waste of time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"522\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/FS-CF1XWIAckV9e-Copy-696x522.jpg\"   alt=\"Former General Secretary of the NPP, ING. Kwabena Agyei Agyepong\" title=\"Former General Secretary of the NPP,  ING. Kwabena Agyei Agyepong\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Former General Secretary of the NPP,  ING. Kwabena Agyei Agyepong <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" scrolling=\"no\" allow=\"autoplay\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/1270112407&#038;color=%23ff5500&#038;auto_play=false&#038;hide_related=false&#038;show_comments=true&#038;show_user=true&#038;show_reposts=false&#038;show_teaser=true&#038;visual=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"300\" frameborder=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwabena Agyepong has reacted to the arrest of #FixTheCountry movement lead convener, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to him, the activist should have been fined for the traffic offence.<\/p>\n<p>Oliver Barker-Vormawor was arrested again on Tuesday, May 17. He was taken to the East Legon Police cells after he was arraigned before the Madina District Court.<\/p>\n<p>He was charged with careless and inconsiderate driving.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Mr. Barker-Vormawor subsequently announced the charge on his personal Facebook page.<\/p>\n<p>This incident, Mr. Agyepong said could have been avoided if the police has just fined the activists.<\/p>\n<p>The NPP man on Asempa FM\u2019s <strong>Ekosii Sen<\/strong> programme said even though Oliver Barker has allegedly threatened to stage a coup, his rights must be protected.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cOliver\u2019s comment on coup was unfortunate but his rights have to be protected and so I think arresting him again today for road offences was just a waste of time,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Kwabena Agyepong urged the police to desist from taking issues to court and adopt instant fines.<\/p>\n<p><strong>ALSO READ:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe police could have just issued a fine. This court issue is a waste of the court time, let\u2019s make use of other innovations,\u201d he noted. <\/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=\"ghHGwCqjgtE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Enam shares an interesting story of going to church with a friend\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ghHGwCqjgtE?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>Former General Secretary of the NPP, ING. Kwabena Agyei Agyepong Former General Secretary of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Kwabena Agyepong has reacted to the arrest of #FixTheCountry movement lead convener, Oliver Barker-Vormawor, Tuesday. According to him, the activist should have been fined for the traffic offence. Oliver Barker-Vormawor was arrested again on Tuesday, May [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1090553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[521,3640],"class_list":["post-1090551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics","tag-time","tag-waste"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090551","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=1090551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1090551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1090551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1090551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1090551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}