{"id":357918,"date":"2017-09-29T14:32:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-29T14:32:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=357918"},"modified":"2017-11-10T11:07:17","modified_gmt":"2017-11-10T11:07:17","slug":"7-suspected-land-guards-arrested-at-kokrobite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=357918","title":{"rendered":"7 suspected land guards arrested at Kokrobite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Police has arrested seven suspected land guards at Kokrobite and its environs in the Greater Accra Region.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects\u00a0allegedly\u00a0\u201cwith impunity terrorize well-meaning Ghanaians from developing their lands.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The suspects are Tetteh Attram, 41 years; Omega Agoe, 41 years; Ofori Joel, 30 years; and Derrick Aryee, 20 years, Godwin Amegashie, 47 years; Joseph Okaijah, 30 years; and Aryee Boye, 21 years.<\/p>\n<p>According to\u00a0a police statement, Thursday at about 2:00 pm, they gathered intelligence that two groups, suspected to be land guards had clashed over a piece of land within Kokrobite.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Police information is that, they had both gone there to claim a digging fee of GHc 1,500 from a developer who had lawfully acquired a property and was developing it, hence the clash,\u201d the statement added.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-large wp-image-357924\" src=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/09\/Kokrobite-landguards-arrested-2-1024x768.jpg\" alt=\"kokrobite-landguards-arrested-2\" width=\"620\" height=\"465\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The Police also impounded 16 motorbikes and a Ford pickup from the scene of the clash.<\/p>\n<p>Four suspects are reported to have sustained various degrees of injury and are receiving treatment at the hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The suspects are to be arraigned today [Friday]. The threat posed by land guards is one of the topmost security threats to the safety of Ghanaians particularly in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Delali Adogla-Bessa\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Police has arrested seven suspected land guards at Kokrobite and its environs in the Greater Accra Region. The suspects\u00a0allegedly\u00a0\u201cwith impunity terrorize well-meaning Ghanaians from developing their lands.\u201d The suspects are Tetteh Attram, 41 years; Omega Agoe, 41 years; Ofori Joel, 30 years; and Derrick Aryee, 20 years, Godwin Amegashie, 47 years; Joseph Okaijah, 30 [&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":[3,821],"class_list":["post-357918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-top-stories","tag-ghana-news","tag-land-guards"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357918","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=357918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/357918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=357918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=357918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=357918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}