{"id":66557,"date":"2014-11-19T13:08:11","date_gmt":"2014-11-19T13:08:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=66557"},"modified":"2014-11-19T13:39:48","modified_gmt":"2014-11-19T13:39:48","slug":"80-police-personnel-deployed-wa-clashes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=66557","title":{"rendered":"Wa clashes: 80 Police personnel deployed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Upper West Regional Police Command has deployed 80 Police personnel to Wa to restore peace after clashes between two feuding factions in the regional capital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The deployed personnel are expected to augment a joint police-military team which is already on grounds maintaining law and order after the incident.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Citi News<\/strong>\u00a0Upper West Regional correspondent, Latif Mahama reported that the \u201cacting Upper West Regional Police Public Relations Officer, Edmund Nyamekye said, some personnel have also been tasked to protect some prominent individuals whose lives are in utmost danger. He said his men will leave no stone unturned to ensure calm is restored in the two communities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;LF4DkzZ4xLBO62jK3FYR7MGhoekQqWuB&#8221;]Violent <span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/regional.citifmonline.com\/2014\/11\/18\/8-injured-3-cars-burnt-in-wa-clashes\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>clashes between two communities over a parcel of land<\/strong><\/a><\/span>, have left eight persons injured and properties worth thousands of Ghana cedis destroyed.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The injured persons are currently receiving treatment at the Upper West Regional Hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">So far\u00a021 persons have been arrested in connection with the violence.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Latif Mahama further indicated that some people have started fleeing the area for fear that the situation could degenerate into further chaos.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cChildren have also complained they are not able to attend school as a result of the dispute,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/clashes-at-wa-4.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66124\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/clashes-at-wa-4.jpg\" alt=\"clashes at wa 4\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/clashes-at-wa-4.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/clashes-at-wa-4-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/clashes-at-wa-13.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66130\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/clashes-at-wa-13.jpg\" alt=\"clashes at wa 13\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/clashes-at-wa-13.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/clashes-at-wa-13-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/clashes-at-wa-6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-66125\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/clashes-at-wa-6.jpg\" alt=\"clashes at wa 6\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/clashes-at-wa-6.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/11\/clashes-at-wa-6-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Godwin Allotey Akweiteh\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"twitter-follow-button\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/AlloteyGodwin\" data-show-count=\"false\">Follow @AlloteyGodwin<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Upper West Regional Police Command has deployed 80 Police personnel to Wa to restore peace after clashes between two feuding factions in the regional capital. The deployed personnel are expected to augment a joint police-military team which is already on grounds maintaining law and order after the incident. Citi News\u00a0Upper West Regional correspondent, Latif [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":66136,"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":[],"tags":[56,38,17],"class_list":["post-66557","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-npp","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66557","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\/24"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=66557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/66557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/66136"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=66557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=66557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=66557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}