{"id":1212654,"date":"2022-09-28T14:31:03","date_gmt":"2022-09-28T14:31:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/28\/ibrahim-mahama-pledges-to-support-young-ghanaian-inventor\/"},"modified":"2022-09-28T14:31:03","modified_gmt":"2022-09-28T14:31:03","slug":"ibrahim-mahama-pledges-to-support-young-ghanaian-inventor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/28\/ibrahim-mahama-pledges-to-support-young-ghanaian-inventor\/","title":{"rendered":"Ibrahim Mahama pledges to support young Ghanaian inventor"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-text\">\n<p>Businessman, Ibrahim Mahama has pledged to help grow the aspirations of a young man, Solomon Atimbiri, who built a moving excavator and other trucks by using local materials.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Atimbiri, hails from the Upper East Region but currently resides in Kumasi.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mahama\u2019s attention was drawn to the young inventor\u2019s video after it went viral on social media.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis young inventor was able to build a moving excavator and other trucks by using local materials\u201d, he said.<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Mahama took interest and decided to mentor young Solomon Atimbiri, by offering him the needed support in realizing his dream.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-09-28-at-6.32.58-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"Ibrahim Mahama pledges to support young Ghanaian inventor\" class=\"wp-image-10032178631 lazy\"  data- title=\"Ibrahim Mahama pledges to support young Ghanaian inventor\"\/><figcaption>Solomon Atimbiri<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>He has been attached to a team of local and expatriates engineers.<\/p>\n<p>Atimbiri will be given practical training whenever school is on break till he completes school.<\/p>\n<p>He will be offered an opportunity to join Mr. Mahama\u2019s company permanently and will be working with a team of professional engineers after completion of school.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"641\" height=\"1024\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-09-28-at-6.32.58-AM-2.jpeg\" alt=\"Ibrahim Mahama pledges to support young Ghanaian inventor\" class=\"wp-image-10032178629 lazy\"  data- title=\"Ibrahim Mahama pledges to support young Ghanaian inventor\"\/><\/figure>\n<p>Some of the current engineers working with Mr. Mahama\u2019s company described Atimbiri as \u201ca raw talent that could be trained to become a professional engineer\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAtimbiri will be given the best support and environment to become an accomplished professional engineer and inventor,\u201d Mr. Mahama pledged.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1024\" height=\"768\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/09\/WhatsApp-Image-2022-09-28-at-6.32.57-AM.jpeg\" alt=\"Ibrahim Mahama pledges to support young Ghanaian inventor\" class=\"wp-image-10032178632 lazy\"  data- title=\"Ibrahim Mahama pledges to support young Ghanaian inventor\"\/><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Businessman, Ibrahim Mahama has pledged to help grow the aspirations of a young man, Solomon Atimbiri, who built a moving excavator and other trucks by using local materials. Mr. Atimbiri, hails from the Upper East Region but currently resides in Kumasi. Mr. Mahama\u2019s attention was drawn to the young inventor\u2019s video after it went viral [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1212655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[72],"tags":[1750,2744,26516,1125,1765,115,128],"class_list":["post-1212654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","tag-ghanaian","tag-ibrahim","tag-inventor","tag-mahama","tag-pledges","tag-support","tag-young"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212654","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=1212654"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1212654\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1212654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1212654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1212654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}