{"id":1233101,"date":"2022-10-24T16:29:36","date_gmt":"2022-10-24T16:29:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/24\/release-cash-from-sold-scrap-to-save-railways-company-from-collapsing\/"},"modified":"2022-10-24T16:29:36","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T16:29:36","slug":"release-cash-from-sold-scrap-to-save-railways-company-from-collapsing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/10\/24\/release-cash-from-sold-scrap-to-save-railways-company-from-collapsing\/","title":{"rendered":"Release cash from sold scrap to save Railways Company from collapsing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Railway Workers Union has called on President Nana Akufo-Addo to immediately direct the Railways Ministry to release some GH\u00a26 million realized from the auctioning of scrap metals of Ghana Railways Company Limited.<\/p>\n<p>This, they say, will help purchase fuel and finance other operational costs to save the Railways company from collapsing.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong>Citi News<\/strong> in Takoradi, the General Secretary of the Railway Workers Union, Godwill Ntarmah, said the Railway company is \u201con the verge of collapse and unable to buy fuel to run its manganese haulage lines as well as pay workers their two months\u2019 salaries in arrears.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>They are therefore appealing to government to release the funds to ensure the company survives.<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"hv2Ho_O_Qk0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Bankrusu residents beg for help as they use railway line as a bridge | Citi Newsroom\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hv2Ho_O_Qk0?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Railway Workers Union has called on President Nana Akufo-Addo to immediately direct the Railways Ministry to release some GH\u00a26 million realized from the auctioning of scrap metals of Ghana Railways Company Limited. This, they say, will help purchase fuel and finance other operational costs to save the Railways company from collapsing. Speaking to Citi [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1233104,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1233101","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\/1233101","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=1233101"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1233101\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1233101"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1233101"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1233101"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}