{"id":171222,"date":"2015-12-01T20:27:46","date_gmt":"2015-12-01T20:27:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=171222"},"modified":"2015-12-01T20:27:46","modified_gmt":"2015-12-01T20:27:46","slug":"ho-poly-students-cry-for-better-security-following-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=171222","title":{"rendered":"Ho Poly students cry for better security following murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some students at Ho Polytechnic have called on authorities of the school to, as a matter of urgency, increase security on the campus following the gruesome murder of a student on Monday 30<sup>th<\/sup>November.<\/p>\n<p>The deceased, Miss Naomi Kpodzro, a first year fashion student of the school was attacked by an unidentified assailant in her room <span data-term=\"goog_1640126325\">on Monday<\/span> dawn.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;o03HOYFSPDdsPu4RVEWiQQqLeeSuH9Bh&#8221;]Some students who spoke to Citi News said they are gripped with fear after the dreadful attack which led to death of their a student.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have never experienced anything of this sort before. We were scared especially seeing the lady on the floor. And you know we are all ladies\u201d they said<\/p>\n<p>They said prior to tragedy, there were pockets of incidents where students were attacked by robbers who made away with their laptop and other valuables.<\/p>\n<p>They are however calling on the school authority to as a matter of urgency increase surveillance on campus to avert future occurrence of such incidents.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile Management of Ho Polytechnic has since been taking steps to allay the fears of students and residents in the polytechnic community.<\/p>\n<p>In a statement issued by the register of the Polytechnic Dr Christopher Amehoe, the polytechnic in collaboration with the Ghana police service have beefed up security at the Divine Star hostel.<\/p>\n<p>There are also a series of counselling sessions underway for traumatized students.<\/p>\n<p>The statement further extended management\u2019s condolence to the bereaved family and reassured them of polytechnic\u2019s support throughout the period.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: King Norbert Akpablie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some students at Ho Polytechnic have called on authorities of the school to, as a matter of urgency, increase security on the campus following the gruesome murder of a student on Monday 30thNovember. The deceased, Miss Naomi Kpodzro, a first year fashion student of the school was attacked by an unidentified assailant in her room [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":170854,"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-171222","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\/171222","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\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=171222"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/171222\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/170854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=171222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=171222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=171222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}