The much anticipated eight National Delegates\u2019 \u00a0Congress of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) is yet to kick start in Kumasi but nine persons have so far being arrested.<\/p>\n
[contextly_sidebar id=”1z0r0LF8IcWFV7mwwjnUUCpOLurPw2Yh”]Eyewitnesses accounted that they were arrested for various offences including sporadic firing of unlicensed guns.<\/p>\n
But the Public Relations Officer of the Ashanti Regional Police Command, Mohammed Yussif Tanko in a telephone interview told Citi News<\/strong> the suspects were arrested for attempting to erect unauthorized barriers around the Babayara Sports Stadium.<\/p>\n The Ashanti Regional Police Commander, DCOP Kofi Boakye is solidly on the ground with his men to maintain order before, during and after the congress.<\/p>\n He has served notice that no amount of persuasion or intimidation will coerce him to release any suspects arrested for various offences.<\/p>\n Security presence is tight within the enclave of the business capital city, Kumasi.<\/p>\n Entry to the stadium is strictly by accreditation and accredited people are scanned before entry.<\/p>\n Some NDC supporters within the periphery of the Babayara Stadium were spotted holding leather canes (Baranzim) for unknown reasons.<\/p>\n –<\/p>\n By: Abdul Karim Naatogmah\/citifmonline.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" The much anticipated eight National Delegates\u2019 \u00a0Congress of the governing National Democratic Congress (NDC) is yet to kick start in Kumasi but nine persons have so far being arrested. [contextly_sidebar id=”1z0r0LF8IcWFV7mwwjnUUCpOLurPw2Yh”]Eyewitnesses accounted that they were arrested for various offences including sporadic firing of unlicensed guns. But the Public Relations Officer of the Ashanti Regional Police […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":75565,"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":[38],"class_list":["post-75674","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\/75674","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=75674"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75674\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/75565"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=75674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=75674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=75674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}