{"id":184044,"date":"2016-01-24T06:56:36","date_gmt":"2016-01-24T06:56:36","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=184044"},"modified":"2016-01-24T06:56:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T06:56:36","slug":"60-year-old-find-for-torturing-dog","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=184044","title":{"rendered":"60-year-old fined for torturing dog"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A 60-year-old pork dealer in Ehi in Volta Region might spend months in prison for torturing a dog if he failed to pay a court fine of GH\u00a2300.00 (Three Hundred Ghana Cedis).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Nyaletashie Deku, was on Friday convicted and sentenced by the Dzodze District Magistrate Court in a case of cruelty to animals.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The man was indicted for intentionally setting a trap for a dog belonging to his neighbor Mr Stevens Attachi on August 16, 2015.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the prosecution, on the said date, the accused set up a metal trap at his joint which caught and severed the animal.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The dog after several hours of screaming in the trap was rescued by a nephew of the owner.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Mr Deku who pleaded not guilty to the charges was slapped with the fine, liable to 5 months imprisonment on failure to pay.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The court also ordered Deku to compensate the dog and the owner with an amount of GH\u00a2500.00 each.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The court in its concluding remarks after the judgment said Deku\u2019s conviction would serve as deterrent to those who infringe on the rights of animals in the country.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: King Norbert Akpablie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A 60-year-old pork dealer in Ehi in Volta Region might spend months in prison for torturing a dog if he failed to pay a court fine of GH\u00a2300.00 (Three Hundred Ghana Cedis). Mr Nyaletashie Deku, was on Friday convicted and sentenced by the Dzodze District Magistrate Court in a case of cruelty to animals. The [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"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":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184044","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184044","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184044"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184044\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184044"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184044"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184044"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}