{"id":178593,"date":"2024-08-15T15:38:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-15T13:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-dont-promote-hate-speech-npc\/"},"modified":"2024-08-15T15:38:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-15T13:38:07","slug":"ghana-dont-promote-hate-speech-npc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-dont-promote-hate-speech-npc\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Don&#8217;t Promote Hate Speech &#8211; NPC"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"21\">Ghanaians have been implored to avoid hate speech in order to maintain peace and security as this year&#8217;s elections get nearer.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"61\">The Director of Capacity Development and Outreach of the National Peace Council (NPC), Mrs Janet Samey, said: &#8220;As citizens of this country, we should be very mindful of our speech. Someone might react to what you have said, and before you realise it, there&#8217;s a whole violent scene based on hearsay, something someone has said, which may not even be true.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"33\">Speaking in an&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202408150178.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>Ghanaians have been implored to avoid hate speech in order to maintain peace and security as this year&#8217;s elections get nearer. The Director of Capacity Development and Outreach of the National Peace Council (NPC), Mrs Janet Samey, said: &#8220;As citizens of this country, we should be very mindful of our speech. Someone might react to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":178594,"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":[258,256,7207,4508,4509,11715,257,22979,7067,254,8769],"class_list":["post-178593","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-dont","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-hate","tag-news","tag-npc","tag-promote","tag-south-africa-today","tag-speech"],"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\/178593","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=178593"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178593\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/178594"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=178593"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=178593"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=178593"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}