{"id":132177,"date":"2015-07-07T11:15:04","date_gmt":"2015-07-07T11:15:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=132177"},"modified":"2015-07-07T11:31:34","modified_gmt":"2015-07-07T11:31:34","slug":"talensi-by-election-ak-47-rifle-other-weapons-intercepted","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=132177","title":{"rendered":"Talensi by-election: AK-47 rifle, other weapons intercepted"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Police in Talensi have intercepted an AK-47 rifle, a pistol, dagger, axe and other dangerous weapons in the area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The weapons were intercepted when the Police mounted a check point\u00a0at Tongo, the capital of Talensi to conduct a random\u00a0search of vehicles entering the Town.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG-20150621-WA0005.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-126819\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG-20150621-WA0005-1024x685.jpg\" alt=\"NPP delegates in Talensi\" width=\"620\" height=\"415\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG-20150621-WA0005-1024x685.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG-20150621-WA0005-300x201.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/06\/IMG-20150621-WA0005.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 620px) 100vw, 620px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to <strong>Citi News<\/strong>\u2019 Karim Natogmah, the AK-47 was retrieved from a Toyota Tundra vehicle with registration number UE 16-13 while the pistol, axe and seven machetes were retrieved from a Ford vehicle.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u00a0He added that the vehicles and their owners have been arrested and detained at the Police station.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He said information available to him suggests that, the occupants of the said vehicles in which the weapons were retrieved are not natives of Tongo.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/talensi-schools-closed-down-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-132167\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/talensi-schools-closed-down-2.jpg\" alt=\"talensi schools closed down (2)\" width=\"640\" height=\"421\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/talensi-schools-closed-down-2.jpg 640w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/talensi-schools-closed-down-2-300x197.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Eligible voters in the Talensi Constituency are <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/07\/07\/talensi-decides-today\/#sthash.kNFeCM9i.dpbs\" target=\"_blank\">currently voting<\/a><\/strong><\/span> to select one from eight parliamentary candidates vying to represent the constituency in Parliament.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Incumbent MP for Talensi, Mr Robert Nachinab Doameng Mosore resigned to take up the position of a paramount chief of Tongo which compelled the Electoral Commission to set July 7, for a by-election in the area.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/npp-delegates-in-talensi.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-132109\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/npp-delegates-in-talensi.jpg\" alt=\"npp delegates in talensi\" width=\"493\" height=\"330\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/npp-delegates-in-talensi.jpg 493w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/npp-delegates-in-talensi-300x201.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 493px) 100vw, 493px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin A. Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Police in Talensi have intercepted an AK-47 rifle, a pistol, dagger, axe and other dangerous weapons in the area. The weapons were intercepted when the Police mounted a check point\u00a0at Tongo, the capital of Talensi to conduct a random\u00a0search of vehicles entering the Town. According to Citi News\u2019 Karim Natogmah, the AK-47 was retrieved [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":4878,"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-132177","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\/132177","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=132177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/132177\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/4878"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=132177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=132177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=132177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}