{"id":39040,"date":"2014-08-13T19:29:19","date_gmt":"2014-08-13T19:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=39040"},"modified":"2014-08-13T19:29:19","modified_gmt":"2014-08-13T19:29:19","slug":"three-policemen-arrested-for-escorting-narcotic-drugs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=39040","title":{"rendered":"Three policemen arrested for escorting narcotic drugs"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Police Service has arrested Chief Inspector Paul Akpabli of Golokwati Police Station in the Volta region for escorting seven bags of a substance suspected to be Indian hemp.<\/p>\n<p>The Police Officer was arrested together with two others by a team of Police personnel at Sokode-Ando in the region while transporting the narcotic substance in a Hyundai bus with registration number AS 6936-09.<\/p>\n<p>The \u00a0other two suspects are the driver, Peter Kamasah-23 and the driver&#8217;s mate Daniel Ekualiho-26.<\/p>\n<p>A press statement signed by the Director of Public Affairs, DSP Cephas Arthur noted that &#8220;preliminary investigation indicates that Inspector Akpabli took a fee of 400.00 cedis to escort the substance from Kpeve to the owner at Dzodze in the region.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All the three suspects are in Police Custody pending further investigations and disciplinary action,&#8221; it added.<\/p>\n<p>It further noted that it will not shield any Police Officer who misconducts him or himself.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Marian Efe Ansah\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/EfeAnsah\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @EfeAnsah<\/a><br \/>\n<script type=\"text\/javascript\">\/\/ <![CDATA[\n!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');\n\/\/ ]]><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ghana Police Service has arrested Chief Inspector Paul Akpabli of Golokwati Police Station in the Volta region for escorting seven bags of a substance suspected to be Indian hemp. The Police Officer was arrested together with two others by a team of Police personnel at Sokode-Ando in the region while transporting the narcotic substance [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":9461,"comment_status":"closed","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":[],"tags":[43,38],"class_list":["post-39040","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39040","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=39040"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/39040\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/9461"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=39040"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=39040"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=39040"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}