{"id":357073,"date":"2017-09-26T14:51:47","date_gmt":"2017-09-26T14:51:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=357073"},"modified":"2017-11-10T11:03:40","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T11:03:40","slug":"ndc-serial-caller-appiah-stadium-arrested-for-insulting-nana-addo","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=357073","title":{"rendered":"NDC serial caller Appiah Stadium arrested for ‘defaming’ Nana Addo"},"content":{"rendered":"

Police in the Ashanti Region have arrested a known serial caller and activist of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Appiah Stadium.<\/p>\n

According to reports, \u00a0he was arrested for suggesting in a recent audio that went viral, that the President, Nana Akufo-Addo smokes marijuana [wee].<\/p>\n

A source at\u00a0the Ashanti Regional command confirmed the arrest to Citi News<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The source also added that\u00a0Appiah Stadium is being transferred to the Criminal Investigations Department (CID) headquarters in Accra for further interrogation.<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, Appiah Stadium has since apologized for the comment, admitting that it was inappropriate and false, and that he had no evidence to prove it.<\/p>\n

The\u00a0Ashanti Regional Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Juliana Obeng\u00a0also told Citi News<\/strong> that Appiah Stadium was arrested on Tuesday following orders from their National Headquarters in Accra.<\/p>\n

“We got instruction from the national headquarters to help them with the arrest of Appiah Stadium and that is exactly what we have done. As I speak to you, Appiah Stadium is on his way to the national CID headquarters. When we arrested him, immediately we put him in a car off to Accra,” she added.<\/p>\n

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

Police in the Ashanti Region have arrested a known serial caller and activist of the opposition National Democratic Congress (NDC), Appiah Stadium. According to reports, \u00a0he was arrested for suggesting in a recent audio that went viral, that the President, Nana Akufo-Addo smokes marijuana [wee]. A source at\u00a0the Ashanti Regional command confirmed the arrest to […]<\/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":[8,11390,11391,3],"class_list":["post-357073","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-akufo-addo","tag-appiah-stadium","tag-appiah-stadium-arrested","tag-ghana-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357073","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=357073"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357073\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357073"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357073"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357073"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}