{"id":2852,"date":"2024-08-20T00:34:25","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T00:34:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=2852"},"modified":"2024-08-20T00:34:26","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T00:34:26","slug":"kofi-bentil-raises-alarm-over-potential-theft-of-achimota-forest-commends-bawumia-for-opposing-sale","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/?p=2852","title":{"rendered":"Kofi Bentil raises alarm over potential theft of Achimota Forest, commends Bawumia for opposing sale&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" src=\"https:\/\/uwordpressmedia.blob.core.windows.net\/uwordpressmedia01\/2024\/08\/87799911.295.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-2853\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A vice president of IMANI Africa, Kofi Bentil, has claimed that the state is likely to lose the Achimota Forest Reserve in Accra.<br><br>In a post shared on Facebook on Sunday, August 19, 2024, Kofi Bentil indicated that the forest is likely to be captured from the state if nothing urgent is done.<br><br>He added that he has been fighting to prevent the capture of the forest but it is time more Ghanaians join.<br><br>\u201cAchimota Forest is at risk of being stolen. I\u2019ve fought to preserve it. It\u2019s time to see others join to protect it. If we don\u2019t, it will be gone soon!\u201d he wrote.<br><br>Even though the IMANI vice president did not indicate the person(s) who were trying to steal the forest, he noted that the Flagbearer of the New Patriotic Party (NPP), Vice President Dr Mahamudu Bawumia, does not want the state to sell it.<br><br>\u201cNB: Bawumia is in favour of saving it, not selling it!!! Let the others also declare their support for the forest remaining a forest.\u201d<br><br>In a subsequent post, Bentil said that the Presidential Candidate for the 2024 election should state their stance on the sale of the Achimota Forest.<br><br>\u201cMake Achimota Forest a campaign issue! Each presidential candidate must declare that they will keep the forest from being changed into anything else. #SaveAchimotaForest.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A vice president of IMANI Africa, Kofi Bentil, has claimed that the state is likely to lose the Achimota Forest Reserve in Accra. In a [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2853,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2852","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2852"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2854,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2852\/revisions\/2854"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2853"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2852"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2852"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sbmediaonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2852"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}