{"id":184551,"date":"2016-01-26T06:18:09","date_gmt":"2016-01-26T06:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=184551"},"modified":"2016-01-26T06:18:09","modified_gmt":"2016-01-26T06:18:09","slug":"burkina-fasos-presidential-guard-arrested-in-ghana","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=184551","title":{"rendered":"Burkina Faso&#8217;s ex presidential guard arrested in Ghana"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A man believed to be a former member of the Burkina Faso presidential guard during the recent coup d\u2019etat has been arrested in Ghana.<\/p>\n<p>The Police confirmed that the man, whose name has been withheld for now, is on the wanted list of Burkina Faso\u2019s security forces.<\/p>\n<p>Police in the Upper West Region arrested him in Gwolu, after they noticed his suspicious movement in the town.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, the Upper West Regional Police Crime Officer, Superintendent Hussein Musah Awun-Naba said the Police found out that he was a former member of the presidential guard after he was interrogated.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cYesterday in the evening around 5 pm\u2026 the Police just saw a certain man who they suspected to be a criminal. He was just loitering in the town and they did not know his name so they arrested him and he was interrogated and it was there that it was revealed he was an ex member of the presidential guard that as disbanded.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPolice in Burkina Faso were also monitoring him so they found out they have arrested him and they contacted us but since we just arrested him we could not just hand him over to them .\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0<\/strong>Meanwhile security chiefs have announced increased surveillance at Ghana\u2019s borders to foil any possible terror attacks after the recent attacks in Burkina Faso.<\/p>\n<p>On Sunday, ten\u00a0soldiers from a disbanded elite unite loyal to Burkina Faso&#8217;s former president were arrested over a raid on an armoury outside the country&#8217;s capital, Ouagadougou.<\/p>\n<p>The pre-dawn raid on Friday at the weapons warehouse underscored the challenges facing new President Roch March Christian Kabore, a week after al-Qaeda fighters attacked a hotel and cafe in the capital, killing at least 30 people.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EfeAnsah\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @EfeAnsah<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!function(d,s,id){var js,fjs=d.getElementsByTagName(s) [0],p=\/^http:\/.test(d.location)?'http':'https';if(!d.getElementById(id)){js=d.createElement(s);js.id=id;js.src=p+':\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js';fjs.parentNode.insertBefore(js,fjs);}}(document, 'script', 'twitter-wjs');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man believed to be a former member of the Burkina Faso presidential guard during the recent coup d\u2019etat has been arrested in Ghana. The Police confirmed that the man, whose name has been withheld for now, is on the wanted list of Burkina Faso\u2019s security forces. Police in the Upper West Region arrested him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"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":[10,11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-184551","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184551","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\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=184551"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/184551\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=184551"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=184551"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=184551"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}