{"id":1245369,"date":"2022-11-06T20:36:41","date_gmt":"2022-11-06T20:36:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/06\/economic-hardship-forces-former-mp-to-pick-trotro\/"},"modified":"2022-11-06T20:36:41","modified_gmt":"2022-11-06T20:36:41","slug":"economic-hardship-forces-former-mp-to-pick-trotro","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/06\/economic-hardship-forces-former-mp-to-pick-trotro\/","title":{"rendered":"Economic hardship forces former MP to pick &#8216;trotro&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"928\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/image-175-696x928.png\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Ras Mubarak\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Former Member of Parliament (MP) for Kumbungu constituency, Ras Mubarak, has abandoned his luxury lifestyle due to the current economic hardship and increasing cost of living in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>He joined public transport, popularly called \u2018trotro\u2019, over the weekend due to fuel hikes. <\/p>\n<p>The former National Democratic Congress MP was part of the \u2018Ku Me Preko\u2019 demonstration in Accra to pile pressure on President Nana Akufo-Addo to resign for his inability to manage the Ghanaian economy.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"636\" height=\"424\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/Ku-me-preko.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2180690\"  \/><\/figure>\n<p>Ras Mubarak took to Facebook to share his frustration.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Below is his post on Facebook:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2FRasmubarak%2Fposts%2Fpfbid02j1dWDgFZ4hoSSihVZjJXARYV2qXPB67Ujp8tQbKCVav15WSBJz35uJZRDrPJ8e3vl&#038;show_text=true&#038;width=500\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\" width=\"500\" height=\"664\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/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=\"2H2rwyOZ-P0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Dakpema Basic School pupils complain of back pain as they study on floor (4-11-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/2H2rwyOZ-P0?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 Member of Parliament (MP) for Kumbungu constituency, Ras Mubarak, has abandoned his luxury lifestyle due to the current economic hardship and increasing cost of living in Ghana. He joined public transport, popularly called \u2018trotro\u2019, over the weekend due to fuel hikes. The former National Democratic Congress MP was part of the \u2018Ku Me Preko\u2019 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1245371,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1245369","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\/1245369","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=1245369"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1245369\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1245369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1245369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1245369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}