{"id":221948,"date":"2026-01-26T12:04:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T10:04:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-prestea-chiefs-appeal-to-government-to-fix-deplorable-road\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:04:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T10:04:46","slug":"ghana-prestea-chiefs-appeal-to-government-to-fix-deplorable-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/west-africa\/ghana\/ghana-prestea-chiefs-appeal-to-government-to-fix-deplorable-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Ghana: Prestea Chiefs Appeal to Government to Fix Deplorable Road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"23\">Chiefs in Prestea in the Western Region have appealed to the government to urgently repair the Prestea-Bogoso road, describing its condition as deplorable.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"38\">They said the road, which has remained in a poor state for more than 14 years, poses serious security and safety risks and continues to negatively affect the social and economic lives of residents in the mining enclave.<\/p>\n<p class=\"story-body-text\" data-para-word-count=\"29\">Speaking to <em>The Ghanaian Times<\/em> on Friday, the Divisional Chief of Prestea-Himan, Nana Nteboa Pra IV, expressed disappointment&#8230;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/allafrica.com\/stories\/202601260150.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>Chiefs in Prestea in the Western Region have appealed to the government to urgently repair the Prestea-Bogoso road, describing its condition as deplorable. They said the road, which has remained in a poor state for more than 14 years, poses serious security and safety risks and continues to negatively affect the social and economic lives [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":221949,"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":[258,256,8992,7493,19611,8037,4508,4509,6427,257,30111,7414,254],"class_list":["post-221948","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ghana","tag-africa","tag-africa-news","tag-appeal","tag-chiefs","tag-deplorable","tag-fix","tag-ghana","tag-ghana-news","tag-government","tag-news","tag-prestea","tag-road","tag-south-africa-today"],"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\/221948","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=221948"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/221948\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/221949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=221948"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=221948"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/southafricatoday.net\/africa-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=221948"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}