{"id":259701,"date":"2016-10-19T15:08:09","date_gmt":"2016-10-19T15:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=259701"},"modified":"2016-10-19T15:08:09","modified_gmt":"2016-10-19T15:08:09","slug":"court-orders-arrest-of-man-for-claiming-president-will-fall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=259701","title":{"rendered":"Court orders arrest of man for claiming President will fall"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A Circuit Court in Accra has ordered the arrest of Kwame Gyebi, a man who allegedly stated that President John Dramani Mahama will &#8221;fall down&#8221; during this year\u2019s Independence Day Parade.<\/p>\n<p>Gyebi, 33, who is being held on charges of threat of death and offensive conduct, failed to turn up in court. hence prosecuting Deputy Superintendent of Police George Amegah prayed for a bench warrant.<\/p>\n<p>The Court, presided by Mr Aboagye Tandoh, obliged the prosecution\u2019s request and\u00a0adjourned the matter to October 28.<\/p>\n<p>Gyebi has pleaded not guilty and he is currently on bail.<\/p>\n<p>Gyebi is alleged to have made the comment at a drinking spot at Dzworwulu, in Accra, and this was witnessed by some people.<\/p>\n<p>He was said to have boasted that he knew what he was referring to and dared anyone to mark his words.<\/p>\n<p>The matter was reported, consequently, to the Airport Police and he was put before the Court on March 1.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>Source: GNA<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Circuit Court in Accra has ordered the arrest of Kwame Gyebi, a man who allegedly stated that President John Dramani Mahama will &#8221;fall down&#8221; during this year\u2019s Independence Day Parade. Gyebi, 33, who is being held on charges of threat of death and offensive conduct, failed to turn up in court. hence prosecuting Deputy [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":243949,"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":[5,11],"tags":[8395,12831,3,464,2421],"class_list":["post-259701","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","category-top-stories","tag-court-arrest","tag-court-oder","tag-ghana-news","tag-mahama","tag-president-mahama"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259701","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=259701"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/259701\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/243949"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=259701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=259701"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=259701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}