{"id":400927,"date":"2018-02-13T05:35:53","date_gmt":"2018-02-13T05:35:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=400927"},"modified":"2018-02-13T07:23:48","modified_gmt":"2018-02-13T07:23:48","slug":"mobile-money-attacks-vendors-appeal-protection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=400927","title":{"rendered":"Mobile money attacks: Vendors appeal for protection"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The increasing number of armed robbery attacks on mobile money merchants has reached an alarming rate, calling for new security measures to curb the canker.<\/p>\n<p>The latest victim is a 31-year old Mobile Money operator who was shot dead by some unknown assailants in the Afigya Kwabre District of the Ashanti Region.<\/p>\n<p>Current figure show that mobile money agents increased from 136 thousand in 2016 to 194 thousand in 2017.<\/p>\n<p>In this news desk report, Bobbie Osei explores the subject of security for mobile money vendors and the way forward in the following report.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/soundcloud.com\/citi97-3\/mobile-money-security\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Click to listen to full audio report.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/w.soundcloud.com\/player\/?url=https%3A\/\/api.soundcloud.com\/tracks\/398636625&amp;color=%23ff5500&amp;auto_play=false&amp;hide_related=false&amp;show_comments=true&amp;show_user=true&amp;show_reposts=false&amp;show_teaser=true\" width=\"100%\" height=\"166\" frameborder=\"no\" scrolling=\"no\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>\u2013<\/p>\n<p>By: Bobbie Osei\/citibusinessnews.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The increasing number of armed robbery attacks on mobile money merchants has reached an alarming rate, calling for new security measures to curb the canker. The latest victim is a 31-year old Mobile Money operator who was shot dead by some unknown assailants in the Afigya Kwabre District of the Ashanti Region. Current figure show [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":55028,"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":[121,32,171,718,11],"tags":[1390],"class_list":["post-400927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-banking-and-finance","category-business","category-local-economy","category-telecoms","category-top-stories","tag-mobile-money"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400927","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=400927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/55028"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=400927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=400927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=400927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}