{"id":284613,"date":"2017-01-13T18:23:04","date_gmt":"2017-01-13T18:23:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=284613"},"modified":"2017-01-13T18:23:04","modified_gmt":"2017-01-13T18:23:04","slug":"npp-chairman-arrested-over-illegal-seizure-of-toll-booth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=284613","title":{"rendered":"NPP chairman arrested over illegal seizure of toll booth"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Amasaman Divisional Police Command has arrested the New Patriotic Party&#8217;s (NPP) Constituency Chairman for Trobu, Kwame Ofosu Agyei, for attempting to take over activities at the Doblo toll booth.<\/p>\n<p>According to a statement signed by the Regional Commander, ACP Timothy Yosa Bonga, the constituency chairman was arrested for forcibly entering the toll booth and threatening to take over revenue collection.<\/p>\n<p>He is also accused of assaulting a police officer who was on duty at the time.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;3zKZWBWILoI8Nces1PRKngfejX6itpBB&#8221;]Providing details about the situation, the Greater Accra Regional Police PRO, ASP Efia Tenge, told <strong>Citi News<\/strong>\u00a0the chairman is being processed for court.<\/p>\n<p>She added that, \u201cthe Accra Regional police command is condemning the lawlessness and vandalism being perpetrated with impunity. For the command, it will treat such persons are purely criminal elements.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Some youth alleged to be sympathizers of the <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/01\/13\/5-arrested-for-seizing-ama-tolls-assaulting-collector\/\"><strong>NPP<\/strong><\/a><\/span> have recently been on rampage; taking over some state properties and institutions including the Ghana Ports and Habours Authority and the Ashaiman assembly.<\/p>\n<p>At Nima, the Divisional Police Command has arrested three other people for similarly taking over three toilet facilities within Mamobi.<\/p>\n<p>The Police Command says it is poised to clamp down on all such unlawful acts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Regional Police Command will treat such persons as criminal elements\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>The Accra Regional Police command on Thursday also arrested five people at CMB and Makola Market in Accra, for preventing revenue collectors from issuing toll tickets to traders.<\/p>\n<p>The five are 25-year old Musah Muship and Abdulai Mohammed aged 41. The rest are 32-year old Issahaku Sulemana, Adam Mahama 39, and Sulemana Issahaku 32. They are all scrap dealers operating in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>According to the Regional Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Effia Tenge \u201cthe suspects allegedly seized toll tickets, assaulted the Accra Metropolitan Assemble Revenue Collectors and [also] collected cash to the sum of two thousand Ghana cedis from them.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Jonas Nyabor\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/jnyabor\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @jnyabor<\/a><\/p>\n<p><script>!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');<\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Amasaman Divisional Police Command has arrested the New Patriotic Party&#8217;s (NPP) Constituency Chairman for Trobu, Kwame Ofosu Agyei, for attempting to take over activities at the Doblo toll booth. According to a statement signed by the Regional Commander, ACP Timothy Yosa Bonga, the constituency chairman was arrested for forcibly entering the toll booth and [&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":[3,320,2963,2964,1870],"class_list":["post-284613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-ghana-police","tag-npp-chairman","tag-npp-chairman-arrested","tag-police-arrest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284613","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=284613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/284613\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=284613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=284613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=284613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}