{"id":1039,"date":"2014-02-03T16:09:49","date_gmt":"2014-02-03T16:09:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/?p=1039"},"modified":"2014-02-03T16:09:49","modified_gmt":"2014-02-03T16:09:49","slug":"41k-a-year-spent-on-cleaning-up-dog-mess-on-the-street-he-lives","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/41k-a-year-spent-on-cleaning-up-dog-mess-on-the-street-he-lives\/","title":{"rendered":"\u00a341k a year spent on cleaning up dog mess on the street he lives"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The culture of patronage and abuse of power hit new lows last week as council documents revealed that the borough\u2019s entire \u00a341,385 contract to clean up dog mess is used to clean 11 streets around the Deputy Mayor Ohid Ahmed home every day of the week. The tax payer cash funds a \u2018dog fouling removal machine\u2019 which operates the same set route each day, centred around the street where Cllr Ahmed lives.<br \/>\nThe machine runs the same route 5 days a week, a total of 520 times a year, completely ignoring the rest of the borough\u2019s densely populated streets, despite residents and Labour councillors increasingly reporting filthy streets.<br \/>\nWhen asked the deputy Mayor responded that the situation was \u201ccompletely normal\u201d showing just how out of touch he is.<\/p>\n<div id=\"fb-root\"><\/div>\r\n<script>(function(d, s, id) {\r\n  var js, fjs = d.getElementsByTagName(s)[0];\r\n  if (d.getElementById(id)) return;\r\n  js = d.createElement(s); js.id = id;\r\n  js.src = \"\/\/connect.facebook.net\/en_GB\/all.js#xfbml=1\";\r\n  fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js, fjs);\r\n}(document, \"script\", \"facebook-jssdk\"));<\/script>\r\n <fb:comments href=\"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/41k-a-year-spent-on-cleaning-up-dog-mess-on-the-street-he-lives\/\" font=\"arial\" num_posts=\"\" width=\"\" height=\"\" colorscheme=\"light\"  style=\"background:#FFFFFF;padding-top:0px;\r\npadding-right:0px;\r\npadding-bottom:0px;\r\npadding-left:0px;\r\nmargin-top:0px;\r\nmargin-right:0px;\r\nmargin-bottom:0px;\r\nmargin-left:0px;\r\n\"><\/fb:comments>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The culture of patronage and abuse of power hit new lows last week as council documents revealed that the borough\u2019s entire \u00a341,385 contract to clean up dog mess is used to clean 11 streets around the Deputy Mayor Ohid Ahmed home every day of the week. The tax payer cash funds a \u2018dog fouling removal &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23],"tags":[],"wps_subtitle":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1039"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1040,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1039\/revisions\/1040"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1039"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1039"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/english.thesunrisetoday.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1039"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}