{"id":15829,"date":"2014-05-01T09:50:51","date_gmt":"2014-05-01T09:50:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=15829"},"modified":"2014-05-01T09:50:51","modified_gmt":"2014-05-01T09:50:51","slug":"ndc-women-organizers-accident-driver-remanded","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=15829","title":{"rendered":"NDC women organizers&#8217; accident: Driver remanded"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A 38-year-old driver whose negligence led to the horrific accident, which claimed the lives of two Deputy Women Organizers of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), on the Techiman-Kintampo Highway over the weekend, was on Tuesday remanded in prison custody for one week, by a Techiman Circuit Court, presided over by Mr Michael Ntumy.<\/p>\n<p>The plea of Abdul Salaam, who was driving the Yutong bus which collided head-on with the Mahindra bus on which the deceased and two others were traveling, was not taken, and he would re-appear on Tuesday, May 6.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased were Hajia Adiza Sali, Deputy Greater-Accra Regional Women&#8217;s Organizer, and Agnes Tia, Deputy Volta Regional Women Organizer.<\/p>\n<p>Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Andrews Okonengye, Techiman Municipal Police Commander, said the accident occurred around 6:30pm on that fateful day.<\/p>\n<p>He explained that the accused person decided to overtake a vehicle near a hill at Nipahiamoa, a community along the highway, but lost control and his vehicle collided with the Mahindra bus, thus seriously injuring two other occupants.<\/p>\n<p>ASP Okonengye said all the nine passengers in the Yutong bus escaped unhurt, except one Mahmud Abubakar, a-31-year-old nurse at the Tamale Teaching Hospital, who sustained some injuries.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 38-year-old driver whose negligence led to the horrific accident, which claimed the lives of two Deputy Women Organizers of the National Democratic Congress (NDC), on the Techiman-Kintampo Highway over the weekend, was on Tuesday remanded in prison custody for one week, by a Techiman Circuit Court, presided over by Mr Michael Ntumy. The plea [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":15830,"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":[17],"class_list":["post-15829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15829","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/15830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}