{"id":398121,"date":"2018-02-04T09:18:40","date_gmt":"2018-02-04T09:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=398121"},"modified":"2018-02-04T09:31:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-04T09:31:41","slug":"aregion-police-recommend-curfew-in-ahwiaa-over-clashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=398121","title":{"rendered":"A\/Region: Police recommend curfew in Ahwiaa over clashes"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Ashanti Regional Police command is proposing the imposition of a curfew in Ahwiaa, a community in the Kwabre East district of the Ashanti Region as a security measure following violent clashes in the area on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n

The Regional command, which was forced to deploy men as part of a joint police and military action to restore peace in the area wants the Regional Security Council to impose a dusk to dawn curfew in the town.<\/p>\n

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\u20184 arrested after clashes\u2019<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Police arrested four suspects in connection with the violence on Saturday.<\/p>\n

Two of the suspects were in possession of a locally manufactured pistol each while the two others had machetes with them.<\/p>\n

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They are being kept in police custody to assist in further investigations.<\/p>\n

What led to the clash?<\/strong><\/p>\n

Several properties including vehicles were vandalized on Saturday due to a fierce battle between two youth groups.<\/p>\n

Residents in the community were forced to lock themselves indoors as a result of the situation.<\/p>\n

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Reports say the disturbances started when the Asante youth prevented their counterparts from the Zongo community from partaking in the burial celebrations of an 18-year old Esther Ampofowaa on Friday.<\/p>\n

Addressing journalists after meeting with chiefs from both sides of the community, the Deputy Ashanti Regional Police Commander, Fred Anim said the police will find a lasting solution to the long-standing feud between the two factions.<\/p>\n

He said the police anticipate casualties from the clashes, he said the\u00a0police is still assessing the situation.<\/p>\n

Calm has since returned to the area\u00a0but the police have said they are monitoring the situation to ensure absolute calm prevails.<\/p>\n

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

The Ashanti Regional Police command is proposing the imposition of a curfew in Ahwiaa, a community in the Kwabre East district of the Ashanti Region as a security measure following violent clashes in the area on Saturday morning. The Regional command, which was forced to deploy men as part of a joint police and military […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":397894,"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":[16770,3,1870],"class_list":["post-398121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-slider-1","category-top-stories","tag-ahwiaa","tag-ghana-news","tag-police-arrest"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398121","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=398121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/398121\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/397894"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=398121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=398121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=398121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}