{"id":53693,"date":"2014-10-05T14:48:29","date_gmt":"2014-10-05T14:48:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=53693"},"modified":"2014-10-05T14:48:29","modified_gmt":"2014-10-05T14:48:29","slug":"assault-claims-orchestrated-and-coordinated-kofi-jumah","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=53693","title":{"rendered":"Assault claims &#8220;orchestrated and coordinated&#8221; &#8211; Kofi Jumah"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The former Member of Parliament for Asokwa in the Ashanti region, Maxwell Kofi Jumah, has accused\u00a0Jamal Agah, the man he is alleged to have ordered his bodyguards to assault, of making up the claims against him.<\/p>\n<p>The former\u00a0Local Government Minister was <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/10\/03\/kofi-juma-arrested-for-assault\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"color: #666699;\">arrested last Friday<\/span><\/strong><\/a> by the\u00a0Ashanti Regional Criminal Investigations Department (CID) for allegedly directing his bodyguards to assault Mr. Agah who he suspected of stealing his mobile phone.<\/p>\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;g2q727DqC3eTGzQ3bMQeLtKVf5KVLohh&#8221;]Mr. Jumah has, however denied the allegations, stating that all the accusations against him were being &#8220;orchestrated and coordinated.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>According to him, there were no signs of the alleged assault on Mr. Agah, who said he had been &#8220;attacked with cutlasses and hoes,&#8221; despite media reports claiming that the victim &#8220;suffered severe bruises and lacerations on his body.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Jumah said he was amazed by the accusations from the alleged victim who he says &#8220;does not have the capacity to be having access to the media.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The former Local Government Minister is now expected to report back at the police station on Tuesday after being <a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2014\/10\/05\/kofi-jumah-granted-police-enquiry-bail\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong><span style=\"color: #666699;\">granted a police enquiry bail<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>By: Edwin Kwakofi\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The former Member of Parliament for Asokwa in the Ashanti region, Maxwell Kofi Jumah, has accused\u00a0Jamal Agah, the man he is alleged to have ordered his bodyguards to assault, of making up the claims against him. The former\u00a0Local Government Minister was arrested last Friday by the\u00a0Ashanti Regional Criminal Investigations Department (CID) for allegedly directing his [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20,"featured_media":53281,"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":[2],"tags":[38],"class_list":["post-53693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-education","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53693","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\/20"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=53693"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53693\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/53281"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=53693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=53693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=53693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}