{"id":109459,"date":"2015-04-18T06:02:50","date_gmt":"2015-04-18T06:02:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=109459"},"modified":"2015-04-18T06:04:10","modified_gmt":"2015-04-18T06:04:10","slug":"govt-investigates-murder-of-ghanaians-on-the-mediterranean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=109459","title":{"rendered":"Gov&#8217;t investigates murder of Ghanaians on the Mediterranean"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Government has opened investigations into reports\u00a0that Christian migrants from Ghana were thrown into the Mediterranean by a group of Muslims travelling with them.<\/p>\n<p>This follows a BBC report on Thursday that 12 Ghanaian and Nigerian migrants had died in religious clash on the Mediterranean and were thrown overboard in a boat heading to Italy.<\/p>\n<p>The Minister of Foreign Affairs, Hannah Tetteh, responding to a tweet to <strong>Citi News<\/strong>\u2019 Benjamin Epton Owusu revealed that, the Ghanaian mission had started investigating and ascertaining the facts of the matter.<\/p>\n<p>She added that, this investigation is to enable her ministry know if there were indeed Ghanaians on board before an action could be taken.<\/p>\n<p>She however assured that findings from the investigations was going to be made public as soon as they have credible information in a couple of days.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/hannah-again.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-109466\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/hannah-again.png\" alt=\"hannah again\" width=\"589\" height=\"254\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/hannah-again.png 589w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/04\/hannah-again-300x129.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 589px) 100vw, 589px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>Arrests<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>According to the BBC,\u00a0Italian police say they have arrested 15 Muslim migrants after they allegedly threw 12 Christians overboard following a row on a boat heading to Italy.<\/p>\n<p>The 15 Muslim migrants involved in the row with Christians were arrested in the Sicilian city of Palermo and charged with &#8220;multiple aggravated murder motivated by religious hate.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Benjamin Epton Owusu\/Citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Government has opened investigations into reports\u00a0that Christian migrants from Ghana were thrown into the Mediterranean by a group of Muslims travelling with them. This follows a BBC report on Thursday that 12 Ghanaian and Nigerian migrants had died in religious clash on the Mediterranean and were thrown overboard in a boat heading to Italy. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":25,"featured_media":109460,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-109459","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/25"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=109459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/109459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/109460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=109459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=109459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=109459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}