{"id":227,"date":"2022-12-03T11:21:48","date_gmt":"2022-12-03T11:21:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/?p=227"},"modified":"2022-12-03T11:21:49","modified_gmt":"2022-12-03T11:21:49","slug":"govt-sends-military-men-to-various-markets-to-control-price-hikes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/2022\/12\/03\/govt-sends-military-men-to-various-markets-to-control-price-hikes\/","title":{"rendered":"Govt. Sends Military Men To Various Markets To Control Price Hikes"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The economic hardship faced by Ghanaians keeps escalating on a daily. 1 dollar to the Ghana Cedis is now at an exchange rate of GHS16cedis. <br>The price of fuel, diesel, gas as well as foodstuffs keeps inflating consistently and the citizens are suffering and lamenting with the harsh economic hardships.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>However, business players which include the manufacturers, wholesalers, as well as retailers have also contributed to the unnecessary hike of prices in the country.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Due to this hike in prices manipulated by business players, the Government has sent military personnel to various markets in Accra and Kumasi to punish business players who are deliberately hiking the prices to help curb this menace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The economic hardship faced by Ghanaians keeps escalating on a daily. 1 dollar to the Ghana Cedis is now at an exchange rate of GHS16cedis. The price of fuel, diesel, gas as well as foodstuffs keeps inflating consistently and the citizens are suffering and lamenting with the harsh economic hardships.<br \/>\nHowever, business players which include the  manufacturers, wholesalers, as well as retailers have also contributed to the unnecessary hike of prices in the country.<\/p>\n<p>Due to this hike in prices manipulated by business players, the Government has sent military personnel to various markets in Accra and Kumasi to punish business players who are deliberately hiking the prices to help curb this menace.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":230,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":true,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-local"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":231,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions\/231"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/230"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gistme.net\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}