{"id":267495,"date":"2016-11-12T12:12:24","date_gmt":"2016-11-12T12:12:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=267495"},"modified":"2016-11-12T12:12:24","modified_gmt":"2016-11-12T12:12:24","slug":"konkombas-fulanis-clash-in-nkwanta-south","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=267495","title":{"rendered":"Konkombas, Fulanis clash in Nkwanta South"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Some Konkomba and Fulanis in Bawa, a farming community in the Nkwanta South District of the Volta Region have clashed in a violent attacks that have left some cattle dead.<\/p>\n<p>The clashes erupted yesterday [Friday November 11] after cattle herded by the Fulanis in the area destroyed food crops belonging to the Kokombas.<\/p>\n<p>According to a local reporter, Benjamin Owusu Obrempong, the agitated Konkomba carried arms and attacked the cattle leaving many dead.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Konkombas could not hold on to their peace and carried guns and attacked the Fulanis\u2019 animals in the bush and killed some of the animals.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Fulanis reportedly retaliated, but calm was subsequently restored to the area when the police was invited.<\/p>\n<p>The District Chief Executive for Nkwanta\u00a0South Alfred Kofi\u00a0Wukanye confirmed that peace has been restored in the area.<\/p>\n<p>He said, he, together with the District Police Command went to the area to ensure that the misunderstanding between the two groups was settled.<\/p>\n<p>Residents had resumed the usual work activities as at press time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Konkomba and Fulanis in Bawa, a farming community in the Nkwanta South District of the Volta Region have clashed in a violent attacks that have left some cattle dead. The clashes erupted yesterday [Friday November 11] after cattle herded by the Fulanis in the area destroyed food crops belonging to the Kokombas. According to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":116537,"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],"tags":[2233,1785,3,13540],"class_list":["post-267495","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general","tag-clashes","tag-fulani","tag-ghana-news","tag-nkwanta-south"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267495","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=267495"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/267495\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/116537"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=267495"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=267495"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=267495"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}