{"id":743255,"date":"2022-01-10T16:12:31","date_gmt":"2022-01-10T16:12:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/10\/sammy-awuku-begs-youth-to-take-down-billboard-mounted-in-honour-of-him\/"},"modified":"2022-01-10T16:12:31","modified_gmt":"2022-01-10T16:12:31","slug":"sammy-awuku-begs-youth-to-take-down-billboard-mounted-in-honour-of-him","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/01\/10\/sammy-awuku-begs-youth-to-take-down-billboard-mounted-in-honour-of-him\/","title":{"rendered":"Sammy Awuku begs youth to take down billboard mounted in honour of him"},"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=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Sammy-Awuku-696x928.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"Sammy Awuku\"\/><\/div>\n<p>Director-General of the National Lottery Authority (NLA), Sammy Awuku has appealed to a youth group in Akwapim North in the Eastern region to pull down a billboard they independently sponsored and erected to honour him.<\/p>\n<p>Though very much appreciated, he said the gesture is ill-time and breeds unnecessary tension.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTiming is bad and optics, not a pleasant one\u2026 I know out of good faith \u2026 You will do the needful before the close of day,\u201d he wrote in a post on Facebook.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/plugins\/post.php?href=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.facebook.com%2Fsammi.awuku%2Fposts%2F10165838394695504&amp;show_text=true&amp;width=500\" width=\"500\" height=\"724\" style=\"border:none;overflow:hidden\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" allow=\"autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; picture-in-picture; web-share\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\t<!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/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=\"_TfxYsN4xT0\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Badwam Ahosepe with Maame Boatemaa on Adom TV (10-1-22)\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/_TfxYsN4xT0?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>Director-General of the National Lottery Authority (NLA), Sammy Awuku has appealed to a youth group in Akwapim North in the Eastern region to pull down a billboard they independently sponsored and erected to honour him. Though very much appreciated, he said the gesture is ill-time and breeds unnecessary tension. \u201cTiming is bad and optics, not [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":743256,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-743255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743255","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=743255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/743255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=743255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=743255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=743255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}