{"id":1106923,"date":"2022-06-01T18:09:50","date_gmt":"2022-06-01T18:09:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/01\/people-are-voicing-out-what-they-are-feeling-they-are-not-trees\/"},"modified":"2022-06-01T18:09:50","modified_gmt":"2022-06-01T18:09:50","slug":"people-are-voicing-out-what-they-are-feeling-they-are-not-trees","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/06\/01\/people-are-voicing-out-what-they-are-feeling-they-are-not-trees\/","title":{"rendered":"People Are Voicing Out What They Are Feeling, They Are Not Trees"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<h2 id=\"h-cwesi-oteng-an-award-winning-artist-has-expressed-sorrow-for-openly-proclaiming-his-endorsement-for- the-new-patriotic-party-in-the-2020-election\">Cwesi Oteng, an award-winning artist, has expressed sorrow for openly proclaiming his endorsement for the New Patriotic Party in the 2020 election.<\/h2>\n<p>When Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo was running for a second term, the \u2018God Dey Bless Me\u2019 singer joined a long list of Ghanaian celebrities who proclaimed their support for him.<\/p>\n<p>However, he has come out to share hard things have been for him under the present government. He still have hopes that things can change under the Akufo-Addo administration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>READ ALSO: \u2018Everything Needs Correction But My Teeth Are Not Deformed\u2019 \u2013 TikTok Star Erkuah<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>In an interview with Hitz FM, he stated:<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\">\n<p>\u201cOpenly declaring my support for a political party came with some regrets. I thought Free SHS was something to commend but it ended up being crap in people\u2019s eyes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI am going through hard times. Very difficult times. I won\u2019t say the government has failed but I think things can be done better. People are saying exactly what they are feeling. They are going through the situation. They are not trees.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>In other news, Cwesi Oteng, a gospel musician and prominent New Patriotic Party (NPP) sympathizer, joined the number of celebrities who expressed concern about the incident. He noted that people will not learn to swim despite the fact that Accra floods are common and should be expected.<\/p>\n<p>Several neighbourhoods in Accra were inundated after a few hours of rain. Social media photos and videos gave a very bleak image of the scenario, which is documented every year.<\/p>\n<p>Cwesi Oteng, commenting on the situation, raised alarm that Ghanaians, particularly those in Accra, have failed to take swimming lessons while knowing that floods are inevitable.<\/p>\n<p>He wrote;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"wp-block-quote\" id=\"h-so-you-know-it-floods-every-year-in-accra-and-you-still-can-t-swim-it-s-not-funny\">\n<p>So you know it floods every year in Accra and you still can\u2019t swim?. It\u2019s not funny.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><strong>Source; www.ghgossip.com<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><script async defer crossorigin=\"anonymous\" src=\"https:\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_US\/sdk.js#xfbml=1&#038;version=v13.0&#038;appId=1009694476028322&#038;autoLogAppEvents=1\" type=\"38b8593d4d4b305177dc59e9-text\/javascript\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cwesi Oteng, an award-winning artist, has expressed sorrow for openly proclaiming his endorsement for the New Patriotic Party in the 2020 election. When Nana Addo Dankwah Akufo-Addo was running for a second term, the \u2018God Dey Bless Me\u2019 singer joined a long list of Ghanaian celebrities who proclaimed their support for him. However, he has [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1106507,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[1097,345,12315,15815],"class_list":["post-1106923","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-entertainment","tag-feeling","tag-people","tag-trees","tag-voicing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106923","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=1106923"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1106923\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1106923"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1106923"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1106923"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}