{"id":74156,"date":"2014-12-15T18:22:35","date_gmt":"2014-12-15T18:22:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=74156"},"modified":"2014-12-16T19:38:20","modified_gmt":"2014-12-16T19:38:20","slug":"armed-robbers-lash-customs-officer-shoot-another","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=74156","title":{"rendered":"Armed robbers lash customs officer, shoot another"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Suspected armed robbers, last week, shot one person and assaulted another during an attack on officers of Ghana Revenue Authority &#8211; customs division at their Wodome check point at Kpetoe in the Volta region.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A custom officer in the area told <strong>citifmonline.com<\/strong> that the incident happened at about 9 pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to the officer,\u00a0the robbers emerged from a nearby bush carrying weapons and pounced on the officer on duty demanding his weapon.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;Qdm5XGNUOhGdj7m6nGCz7lIC8ji8h8xi&#8221;]&#8221;They held up the officer and his errand boy at gunpoint demanding the weapons at the check point, \u00a0they came shouting where are the guns? Where are the guns?&#8221; He said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The robbers reportedly whipped the officer, Samuel akuinor for several minutes, forcing him to give in to their demand and directed them to the room where the gun was.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The robbers broke into the room, ransacked the place and made away with a ten round SMG Ruffle TB3569.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The errand boy at the check point nicknamed Togbui who could not stand the treatment being meted out to the officer threw a chair at one of the robbers.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ceps1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74334\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ceps1.jpg\" alt=\"ceps\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ceps1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ceps1-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He subsequently bolted into the bush but one of the robbers opened fire on him, injuring him in the back.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">He is currently receiving treatment at the Volta regional hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Meanwhile the customs officer has also been discharged from the hospital.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The Volta Regional Police Commander DCOP Peterking Yentumi who confirmed the incident, has assured that\u00a0perpetrators of the act would be brought to book as investigations are being conducted.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ce1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-74335\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ce1.jpg\" alt=\"ce\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ce1.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/ce1-300x225.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: King Norbert Akpablie\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Suspected armed robbers, last week, shot one person and assaulted another during an attack on officers of Ghana Revenue Authority &#8211; customs division at their Wodome check point at Kpetoe in the Volta region. A custom officer in the area told citifmonline.com that the incident happened at about 9 pm on Wednesday. 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