{"id":115524,"date":"2015-05-12T11:58:03","date_gmt":"2015-05-12T11:58:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=115524"},"modified":"2015-05-12T13:27:29","modified_gmt":"2015-05-12T13:27:29","slug":"state-drops-charges-against-2-ghanaian-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=115524","title":{"rendered":"State drops charges against 2 Ghanaian &#8216;pirates&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The state has dropped charges against two Ghanaians, George Opata Okrah and Joel Yaw Attah suspected to have aided eight Nigerian pirate who seized a Nigerian flagged commercial oil tanker.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;BwTFUEolVC413x6bI7wIOnDxiZc5p0Ly&#8221;]Eight Nigerian suspected pirates were arrested in January\u00a0by the Eastern Naval Command in Tema for <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/01\/18\/ghana-navy-arrests-8-nigerian-high-sea-robbers\/#sthash.oysuzTVB.gV6O8GM1.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\">h<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>ijacking an oil vessel<\/strong><\/span> <\/a>in Nigeria.<\/p>\n<p>Ghanaian Security Services say the pirates managed to transfer the ship\u2019s cargo into another vessel before\u00a0their arrest.<\/p>\n<p>The vessel, MV Mariam, was carrying about 1,500 tonnes of crude oil at the time it was hijacked.<\/p>\n<p>The pirates reportedly turned the vessel around and entered the territorial waters of Ghana but a tracking device on the vessel enabled the owner to track it down.<\/p>\n<p>Two Ghanaians were charged along with the eight for aiding and abetting.<\/p>\n<p>They were charged with piracy and conspiracy to commit crime but the state on Tuesday&#8217;s sitting ruled that investigations reveal the two had no involvement in the crime.<\/p>\n<p>They were therefore subsequently been discharged and acquitted by an Accra Magistrate court.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Fred Djabanor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The state has dropped charges against two Ghanaians, George Opata Okrah and Joel Yaw Attah suspected to have aided eight Nigerian pirate who seized a Nigerian flagged commercial oil tanker. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;BwTFUEolVC413x6bI7wIOnDxiZc5p0Ly&#8221;]Eight Nigerian suspected pirates were arrested in January\u00a0by the Eastern Naval Command in Tema for hijacking an oil vessel in Nigeria. Ghanaian Security Services [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":108645,"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":[38,17],"class_list":["post-115524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115524","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=115524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/108645"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=115524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=115524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=115524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}