{"id":288228,"date":"2017-01-25T19:41:17","date_gmt":"2017-01-25T19:41:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=288228"},"modified":"2017-01-25T19:41:17","modified_gmt":"2017-01-25T19:41:17","slug":"ho-police-injured-protecting-fulanis-from-angry-residents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=288228","title":{"rendered":"Ho: Police injured protecting Fulanis from angry residents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Two police officers have been injured protecting\u00a0nomadic Fulani herdsmen from angry\u00a0residents of Sokode Ando in the Ho Municipality of the Volta Region.<\/p>\n<p>According to <strong>Citi News&#8217;<\/strong> Volta Regional Correspondent, King Norbert Akpablie, there were clashes between the Fulani herdsmen and the Sokode Ando residents today [Wednesday], after they accused the herdsmen of\u00a0killing a local resident\u00a0on a farm two weeks ago.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/e6772800-8a87-46e9-a0cf-d8355ee213b9.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-288241\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/e6772800-8a87-46e9-a0cf-d8355ee213b9.jpg\" alt=\"Sokode Ando\" width=\"600\" height=\"397\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The angry residents, wielding cutlasses and guns, have threatened to drive out all Fulani herdsmen out of the community.<\/p>\n<p>They have also constructed roadblocks to check cars for Fulani herdsmen.<\/p>\n<p>The police tried to intervene in the situation to protect some of the Fulani herdsmen, but this didn\u2019t go down well with the locals, who they attacked the police officers.<\/p>\n<p>One of the injured policemen sustained stab wounds, whilst three police rifles were also seized, and are still in the possession of the locals.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Citi News<\/strong>\u00a0King\u00a0Norbert indicated that, a mediation team has since been sent by the Ho Municipal Assembly to engage with the locals, as they threatened to\u00a0hurt anyone who attempts to retrieve the guns.<\/p>\n<p>Norbert added that, some police personnel from Anyrawase,\u00a0also in the Volta Region, were also attacked after trying to rescue some other Fulani herdsmen under threat from locals.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The police officers were attacked, their phones were seized and they were forced to abandon their cars in some bushes. Attempts are being made to tow the car&#8221; Norbert stated.<\/p>\n<p>He added that, a police reinforcement has been dispatched from the Volta Regional Police Command to restore order.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two police officers have been injured protecting\u00a0nomadic Fulani herdsmen from angry\u00a0residents of Sokode Ando in the Ho Municipality of the Volta Region. According to Citi News&#8217; Volta Regional Correspondent, King Norbert Akpablie, there were clashes between the Fulani herdsmen and the Sokode Ando residents today [Wednesday], after they accused the herdsmen of\u00a0killing a local resident\u00a0on [&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":[11],"tags":[59,3,3449,3450],"class_list":["post-288228","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-fulani-clashes","tag-ghana-news","tag-ho-municipality","tag-sokode-ando"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288228","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=288228"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288228\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=288228"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=288228"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=288228"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}