{"id":1209266,"date":"2022-09-22T16:48:44","date_gmt":"2022-09-22T16:48:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/22\/laklevikope-residents-consider-demo-after-woman-drowns-in-lagoon\/"},"modified":"2022-09-22T16:48:44","modified_gmt":"2022-09-22T16:48:44","slug":"laklevikope-residents-consider-demo-after-woman-drowns-in-lagoon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/22\/laklevikope-residents-consider-demo-after-woman-drowns-in-lagoon\/","title":{"rendered":"Laklevikope residents consider demo after woman drowns in lagoon"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Residents in Laklevikope and its surrounding communities in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta Region say, they will protest the operations of Seven Seas Salt Mining Limited in their communities which have put their lives in danger.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is important we demonstrate because this company is taking us for granted,\u201d the Assemblyman for the area, Victor Ayaku, said to <strong>Citi News.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On Saturday, 17th September 2022, a mother and her three children, drowned after they fell in a pit at the lagoon by the Seven Seas Salt Mining Limited.<\/p>\n<p>The residents have also said the activities of the company are putting them at risk as they depend on the lagoon for their fishing activities.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Ayaku said the residents have resolved to protest since efforts to bring such activities to their minimum have proven futile.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAll the activities that are being undertaken by the company within the company are doing more harm than good.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe necessary steps we needed to take as assembly members were all exhausted, but still, what is going on is still going on.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As an example, Mr. Ayaki said the company demonstrated carelessness by not erecting warning signs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are calling on the government to come and investigate. After that, possibly, we will take legal action against this company,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"htt77hZR2ow\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Laklevikope: Mother, her three children drown in dyke created in lagoon by salt mining company\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/htt77hZR2ow?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Residents in Laklevikope and its surrounding communities in the Ketu South Municipality of the Volta Region say, they will protest the operations of Seven Seas Salt Mining Limited in their communities which have put their lives in danger. \u201cIt is important we demonstrate because this company is taking us for granted,\u201d the Assemblyman for the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1209267,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1209266","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209266","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=1209266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1209266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1209266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1209266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1209266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}