{"id":147954,"date":"2015-09-01T12:19:38","date_gmt":"2015-09-01T12:19:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=147954"},"modified":"2015-09-01T17:20:34","modified_gmt":"2015-09-01T17:20:34","slug":"another-suspected-robber-burnt-to-death-at-kasoa","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=147954","title":{"rendered":"Another suspected robber burnt to death at Kasoa"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An irate mob at Adom Estate-Akweley, a suburb of Kasoa in the Central Region, has for the second time in a month,<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong> <a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/08\/24\/kasoa-residents-hunt-down-suspected-robber-burn-him-to-death\/\" target=\"_blank\">burnt a suspected robber to death<\/a><\/strong>.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;K95qbyogl2SptqyZIJy67zSRyWGzlqs7&#8243;]A resident, who gave her name as Sophia, told <strong>citifmonline.com<\/strong>\u00a0the incident happened at dawn on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p>According to her, the said\u00a0robber together with his colleagues tried to escape in a vehicle but one of them was caught by the angry residents.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI was awake at dawn watching a movie and I heard people shouting and calling someone a thief&#8230; They passed in front of my house and headed for the junction leading to the Last Stop towards the Lamptey Mills School but their car stopped. I do not know how they managed to catch one of them because they sped off after fixing the car as I watched from my window. It was just this morning that I heard they managed to grab one person who has been burnt to death&#8230;\u201d she narrated.<\/p>\n<p>It is however unclear what the suspected robbers stole or who \u00a0they stole from.<\/p>\n<p>The Police are yet to confirm the latest mob justice in the area.<\/p>\n<p>About a week ago, another set of\u00a0angry residents at Amanfrom, near Kasoa, tracked down a man they claim was a robber and <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/08\/24\/kasoa-residents-hunt-down-suspected-robber-burn-him-to-death\/\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #666699;\">burnt him to death<\/span>.<\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p>They had\u00a0complained that the Police deserted them after several robbery attacks in the area.<\/p>\n<p>An <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/08\/24\/ecobank-manager-shot-dead\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ecobank manager was also killed<\/a><\/strong><\/span> at Kasoa within the same period by unknown assailants.<\/p>\n<p>Human rights activists have condemned the mob justice\u00a0and have advocated the prosecution of persons who take the law into their own hands.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Ebenezer Afanyi Dadzie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An irate mob at Adom Estate-Akweley, a suburb of Kasoa in the Central Region, has for the second time in a month, burnt a suspected robber to death. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;K95qbyogl2SptqyZIJy67zSRyWGzlqs7&#8243;]A resident, who gave her name as Sophia, told citifmonline.com\u00a0the incident happened at dawn on Tuesday. According to her, the said\u00a0robber together with his colleagues tried [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":29,"featured_media":76951,"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-147954","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\/147954","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\/29"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=147954"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/147954\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/76951"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=147954"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=147954"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=147954"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}