{"id":215678,"date":"2025-12-04T10:09:05","date_gmt":"2025-12-04T08:09:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-concerned-citizens-of-ghana-appeal-to-u-s-for-ofori-attas-extradition\/"},"modified":"2025-12-04T10:09:05","modified_gmt":"2025-12-04T08:09:05","slug":"ghana-concerned-citizens-of-ghana-appeal-to-u-s-for-ofori-attas-extradition","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-concerned-citizens-of-ghana-appeal-to-u-s-for-ofori-attas-extradition\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Concerned Citizens of Ghana Appeal to U.S. for Ofori-Atta&#8217;s Extradition"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"85\">The Concerned Citizens of Ghana, a social and constitutional advocacy group, has appealed to the United States government to support Ghana&#8217;s efforts in securing the extradition of former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta to face charges brought against him by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP). In a statement issued in Accra and signed by the group&#8217;s leader, Professor Kwaku Asare, also known as Kwaku Azar, the group stressed that its appeal was not a declaration of guilt but a call for due&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202512040020.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>The Concerned Citizens of Ghana, a social and constitutional advocacy group, has appealed to the United States government to support Ghana&#8217;s efforts in securing the extradition of former Finance Minister Ken Ofori-Atta to face charges brought against him by the Office of the Special Prosecutor (OSP). In a statement issued in Accra and signed by [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":215679,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.allafrica.com\/static\/images\/structure\/aa-logo-rgba-no-text-square.png","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[4507],"tags":[258,256,8992,7604,10495,7086,4508,4509,257,53033,254,2282],"class_list":["post-215678","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appeal","tag-citizens","tag-concerned","tag-extradition","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-news","tag-oforiattas","tag-south-africa-today","tag-u-s"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.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\/215678","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=215678"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215678\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215679"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215678"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215678"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215678"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}