{"id":5092,"date":"2014-03-10T13:23:53","date_gmt":"2014-03-10T13:23:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=5092"},"modified":"2014-03-10T15:17:55","modified_gmt":"2014-03-10T15:17:55","slug":"police-yet-to-work-on-beaten-referee-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=5092","title":{"rendered":"Police yet to investigate referee&#8217;s death"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/995228-16181635-640-360.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5094\" alt=\"Referee\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/995228-16181635-640-360-300x168.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"168\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/995228-16181635-640-360-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/995228-16181635-640-360.jpg 630w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>The Western Region Police Command say they have not made much progress with the case of the 21 year old referee who died on Friday after being beaten at a football match.<\/p>\n<p>The late Kyei Andoh, a referee in the lower leagues, was allegedly assaulted by fans of Gold Stars FC in the Western Region a week ago after awarding a late penalty to the opposing Naajoe United team.<\/p>\n<p>The referee sustained injuries but failed to report at a medical facility and as a result, reports say he collapsed last Friday and died a few hours later.<\/p>\n<p>But the Western Regional Police Public Relations Officer, ASP Olivia Ewurama Adiku says they only heard of the case this morning.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the brother of the late referee, Kofi, told Citi Sports last night that there was no doctor on duty at the health facility they visited, which hastened the death.<\/p>\n<p>The Referees Association of Ghana have also ordered their members from officiating Division 2 games until further notice.<\/p>\n<p>By: Gary Al-Smith\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Western Region Police Command say they have not made much progress with the case of the 21 year old referee who died on Friday after being beaten at a football match. The late Kyei Andoh, a referee in the lower leagues, was allegedly assaulted by fans of Gold Stars FC in the Western Region [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":5094,"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":[2],"tags":[29,3,38],"class_list":["post-5092","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-dr-mahamudu-bawumia","tag-ghana-news","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092","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=5092"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5092\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/5094"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5092"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5092"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5092"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}