{"id":391121,"date":"2018-01-12T17:51:35","date_gmt":"2018-01-12T17:51:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=391121"},"modified":"2018-01-12T17:51:35","modified_gmt":"2018-01-12T17:51:35","slug":"bimbilla-curfew-reviewed-after-sporadic-gunfire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=391121","title":{"rendered":"Bimbilla curfew reviewed after sporadic gunfire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Interior has reviewed the curfew it imposed on the Bimbilla Township following recent reports of\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2018\/01\/12\/3-dead-8-injured-from-sporadic-gunshots-in-bimbilla\/\"><strong>sporadic gunfire<\/strong><\/a><\/span>\u00a0in the area.<\/p>\n<p>The curfew, which previously spanned six hours from\u00a0 10:00pm to 4:00am has been reviewed to the period from dusk to dawn [6:00pm to 6:00am] effective today, Friday, January 12, 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe Minister of the Interior has on the advice of the Northern Regional Security Council and by Executive Instrument reviewed the existing curfew hours for Bimbilla Township from 10:00pm to 4:00am to 6:00pm to 6:00am effective this Friday, January 12, 2018,\u201d the Minister of Interior Ambrose Dery said in a statement issued today.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;kShvMxQjV0UySCfz9hToqFckgXj4GBbp&#8221;]The township has been placed under a curfew for well <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/2017\/09\/22\/well-lift-bimbilla-curfew-if-peace-prevails-dery\/\"><strong>over a decade now<\/strong><\/a><\/span> following some protracted chieftaincy conflicts.<\/p>\n<p><strong>3 dead, 8 injured from sporadic gunshots in Bimbilla<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Three people died in Bimbilla with eight others injured in an attack on Thursday by unknown assailants.<\/p>\n<p>According to eyewitnesses, two persons on a motorbike allegedly shot at them and sped off.<\/p>\n<p>Five of the injured victims with various degrees of injury are receiving treatment at the Tamale Teaching Hospital, with three others at the Bimbilla Hospital.<\/p>\n<p>The incident led to sporadic shootings in some parts of the troubled town.<\/p>\n<p><strong>RCC endorses review of curfew <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Northern Regional Coordinating in a statement endorsed the review of the curfew.<\/p>\n<p>The Regional Security Council at its meeting held on Friday, January 12, 2018 extensively discussed the above report and agreed with the recommendations that;<\/p>\n<p>i.The curfew in Bimbilla Township be reviewed from the current 10:00pm to 4:00am to 6:00pm to 6:00am.<\/p>\n<p>ii.There be an immediate ban on the use of motorbikes to transport more than one person.<\/p>\n<p>iii.There be an immediate ban on drumming and dancing in the Bimbilla Township.<\/p>\n<p>iv.There be an immediate reinforcement of security in the district.<\/p>\n<p>&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>By: Godwin Akweiteh Allotey\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<br \/>\n<a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><br \/>\n<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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Ministry of Interior has reviewed the curfew it imposed on the Bimbilla Township following recent reports of\u00a0sporadic gunfire\u00a0in the area. The curfew, which previously spanned six hours from\u00a0 10:00pm to 4:00am has been reviewed to the period from dusk to dawn [6:00pm to 6:00am] effective today, Friday, January 12, 2018. \u201cThe Minister of the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":187100,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","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":[27],"class_list":["post-391121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-bimbilla"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391121","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\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=391121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/391121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/187100"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=391121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=391121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=391121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}