{"id":116124,"date":"2015-05-14T14:53:34","date_gmt":"2015-05-14T14:53:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=116124"},"modified":"2015-05-14T15:02:03","modified_gmt":"2015-05-14T15:02:03","slug":"suspects-in-african-american-murder-case-denied-bail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=116124","title":{"rendered":"Suspects in African American murder case denied bail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An Accra Magistrate Court has denied six suspects alleged to have<a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/05\/07\/police-exhume-bodies-of-2-murdered-african-americans\/#sthash.oMDS8l1h.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>\u00a0murdered two African Americans<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>in Akwamu in the Eastern Region bail.<\/p>\n<p>The six have been also been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;XLfpriG7T7wRLOCsSqKesm8p0mctkWWy&#8221;]The victims who had gone missing for sometime were found on the floor with a blood stained cudgel believed to have been used to hit them by their side at their residence a few weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p>It is suspected that the two, a 75-year-old lady identified only as Mamlena and 60-year-old Nzinga were kidnapped and murdered.<\/p>\n<p>Reports indicate that the deceased who were leaders of the African American Community were accused by the Chieftaincy Minister, Dr. Seidu Danaa, of illegally acting as chiefs.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Police caused the death of two African Americans \u2013 Family<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile the family of the two African Americans are<a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/05\/13\/police-caused-the-death-of-two-african-americans-family\/#sthash.tyzswLsn.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong>\u00a0blaming the Police<\/strong> <\/span><\/a>for their deaths.<\/p>\n<p>According to Majewa Akpan, sister to one of the deceased, the Police could have prevented the murder of the two traditional leaders of the African American community in Fihankra if they had been proactive.<\/p>\n<p>She said\u00a0that they sought the help of the Police on several occasions when their lives were being threatened but they were not assisted in any way.<\/p>\n<p>Majewa Akpan narrated saying, \u201cwe went there on numerous occasions to report threats and misbehaviour on the property and when the Minister sent two of the accused men to occupy our building\u2026we asked the Police to come and assist us in getting them out and they said they would not do it.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Fred Djabanor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An Accra Magistrate Court has denied six suspects alleged to have\u00a0murdered two African Americans in Akwamu in the Eastern Region bail. The six have been also been charged with murder and conspiracy to commit murder. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;XLfpriG7T7wRLOCsSqKesm8p0mctkWWy&#8221;]The victims who had gone missing for sometime were found on the floor with a blood stained cudgel believed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":114552,"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-116124","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\/116124","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=116124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116124\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/114552"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=116124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=116124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=116124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}