{"id":175559,"date":"2024-06-30T01:44:15","date_gmt":"2024-06-29T23:44:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-dont-abandon-introducing-cement-pricing-li\/"},"modified":"2024-06-30T01:44:15","modified_gmt":"2024-06-29T23:44:15","slug":"ghana-dont-abandon-introducing-cement-pricing-li","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-dont-abandon-introducing-cement-pricing-li\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Don&#8217;t Abandon Introducing Cement Pricing Li!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"39\">One cannot but describe as good the attempt by the Trade and Industry Minister, KT Hammond, to make the government introduce a legislation to control the pricing of cement to protect consumers from &#8220;haphazard&#8221; increment in prices by manufacturers.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">It is, however, unfortunate that his attempt to submit the Legislative Instrument (LI) to Parliament on Wednesday was blocked for lack of consultation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"48\">We think that being a legislator himself, Mr Hammond should have gone through the necessary steps in&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202406280705.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read more on AllAfrica.com<\/a><br \/>\n<br \/>South Africa Today Africa \u2013 West Africa <a title=\"Ghana\" href=\"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/category\/west-africa\/ghana\/\">Ghana<\/a> News<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>One cannot but describe as good the attempt by the Trade and Industry Minister, KT Hammond, to make the government introduce a legislation to control the pricing of cement to protect consumers from &#8220;haphazard&#8221; increment in prices by manufacturers. It is, however, unfortunate that his attempt to submit the Legislative Instrument (LI) to Parliament on [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":175560,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[9192,258,256,8687,7207,4508,4509,21623,257,15330,254],"class_list":["post-175559","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-abandon","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-cement","tag-dont","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-introducing","tag-news","tag-pricing","tag-south-africa-today"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn08.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175559","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175559"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175559\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175560"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175559"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175559"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175559"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}