{"id":282996,"date":"2017-01-09T06:00:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-09T06:00:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=282996"},"modified":"2017-01-09T06:00:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-09T06:00:17","slug":"6-arrested-for-theft-during-presidents-inauguration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=282996","title":{"rendered":"6 arrested for theft during president’s inauguration"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police arrested at least six persons for allegedly engaging in some criminal activities within the Black Star Square during the swearing-in ceremony of President Nana Akufo-Addo and his Vice, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia.<\/p>\n

The suspects are currently being processed for court for allegedly stealing from some guests at the event.<\/p>\n

In a Citi News<\/strong> interview, the Director of Public Affairs of the Ghana Police Service, Superintendent Cephas Arthur, said the police recorded ten different cases of theft at the event.<\/p>\n

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Superintendent Cephas Arthur<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“We recorded about 10 cases of petty crimes like pick-pocketing or situations where people’s mobile phones were picked up and other things. And of those cases, we managed to arrest the perpetrators. Yesterday [Saturday], the perpetrators were being processed and further\u00a0sent to the Nima and Ministries police station for further action.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cSo out of the 10 petty cases of stealing that we recorded, at the time that I was there, about six of them had been arrested and those people were going to be processed for court,\u201d Supt. Arthur said.<\/p>\n

5,000 personnel from the police and the military were in and around the Black Star Square to oversee matters pertaining to security.<\/p>\n

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By: citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Police arrested at least six persons for allegedly engaging in some criminal activities within the Black Star Square during the swearing-in ceremony of President Nana Akufo-Addo and his Vice, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumia. The suspects are currently being processed for court for allegedly stealing from some guests at the event. In a Citi News interview, the […]<\/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":[5],"tags":[2678,3,320,2683,56,2714],"class_list":["post-282996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-black-star-square","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghana-police","tag-nana-addo-inauguration","tag-npp","tag-pickpockets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282996","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=282996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/282996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=282996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=282996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=282996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}