{"id":77925,"date":"2014-12-29T08:44:31","date_gmt":"2014-12-29T08:44:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=77925"},"modified":"2014-12-29T08:44:31","modified_gmt":"2014-12-29T08:44:31","slug":"mob-lynches-man-allegedly-killing-wife","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=77925","title":{"rendered":"Mob lynches man for allegedly killing wife"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"itemIntroText\">\n<p>A mob lynched a man on Christmas Eve after he had allegedly killed his wife on suspicion of infidelity at Wassa Abreshia in the Wassa Amenfi East District.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"itemFullText\">\n<p>[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;oTURdPQzm6pLwE0fxVKmJrp5G0hPRrnX&#8221;]The man, Kofi Banda, allegedly shot and killed his wife, identified only as Ohenewaa, after he had picked a quarrel with her \u00a0over her alleged infidelity.<\/p>\n<p>Although Banda fled the scene after killing Ohenewaa, he returned later in the evening to meet the wrath of the mob.<\/p>\n<p>Banda\u2019s and Ohenewaa\u2019s bodies are currently at the morgue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Police<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The Wassa Akrotiri District Police Commander, Assistant Superintendent of Police (ASP) Mr Isaac Kuminpah, told the Daily Graphic that information picked by the police indicated that while Banda was on a visit to Kumasi, he called Ohenewaa and claimed to have heard a male voice in the background.<\/p>\n<p>He said although Ohenewaa, with whom Banda had children, claimed it was not true, Banda took offence.<\/p>\n<p>He said on Banda\u2019s return to Abreshia, he allegedly picked a quarrel with Ohenewaa, and shot and killed her instantly.<\/p>\n<p>Mr Kuminpah said Banda fled the town soon after the incident, leaving the wife in a pool of blood.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Lynching<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>He said while members of the community were busily preparing for the Christmas eve celebrations, they saw the suspect and beat him to death.<\/p>\n<p>He said the police got wind of the incident after the suspect had already been lynched.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/graphic.com.gh\/news\/general-news\/36112-mob-lynches-man-for-allegedly-killing-wife.html\" target=\"_blank\"><span style=\"color: #800080;\"><strong>Graphic Online<\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A mob lynched a man on Christmas Eve after he had allegedly killed his wife on suspicion of infidelity at Wassa Abreshia in the Wassa Amenfi East District. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;oTURdPQzm6pLwE0fxVKmJrp5G0hPRrnX&#8221;]The man, Kofi Banda, allegedly shot and killed his wife, identified only as Ohenewaa, after he had picked a quarrel with her \u00a0over her alleged infidelity. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":13204,"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":[38,17],"class_list":["post-77925","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-palaver-newspaper","tag-wassa-akropong"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77925","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\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=77925"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/77925\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=77925"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=77925"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=77925"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}