{"id":80151,"date":"2015-01-07T12:40:50","date_gmt":"2015-01-07T12:40:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/?p=80151"},"modified":"2015-01-07T13:31:19","modified_gmt":"2015-01-07T13:31:19","slug":"bukom-banku-released-from-police-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/?p=80151","title":{"rendered":"Bukom Banku released from police custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Boxer Braimah Kamoko alias\u00a0Bukum Banku has been released from Police custody.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">[contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;anXNKiC8eokbzc3lvTsdqSW4Db1LoM2m&#8221;]He was arrested on Tuesday for\u00a0<span style=\"color: #666699;\"><a style=\"color: #666699;\" href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/2015\/01\/06\/bukom-banku-arrested-again-for-alleged-assault\/\" target=\"_blank\"><strong>allegedly inflicting physical harm on some persons<\/strong> <\/a><\/span>after a disagreement at a ceremony at Gbese in Accra.<\/p>\n<p>Speaking to <strong>Citi News<\/strong> the PRO of the Accra regional Police command ASP Effia Tenge \u00a0that investigations are still ongoing in the circumstances leading to violence in Gbese in Accra yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cHe has been granted a police enquiry bail and this is to enable the police gather more information at what happened in Jamestown yesterday. and we may call him if there is a need for us to do so and if we have to process him for court we will do so,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Earlier, the Accra Regional Police Commander DCOP Christian Tetteh Yohuno told <strong>Citi News<\/strong> that the police were processing him for court.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cWe are processing the case for causing harm, assault and then we will send the case to court. He is in our custody and we will process him for court today,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">DCOP Yohuno said information available to the police suggests that some persons attacked Bukom Banku&#8217;s wife adding that \u201che was also against the celebration of particular event celebrated by the local people every year. So he went there with the purpose of stopping whatever they were doing.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The situation he said led Bukom Banku and his men to attack some people in the area using machetes and bottles.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to him the police had to step in reinforce security in the area to maintain law and order.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_79877\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-79877\" style=\"width: 768px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bukom-banku.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-79877 size-full\" src=\"http:\/\/4cd.e16.myftpupload.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bukom-banku.jpg\" alt=\"bukom banku\" width=\"768\" height=\"576\" srcset=\"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bukom-banku.jpg 768w, https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/01\/bukom-banku-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 768px) 100vw, 768px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-79877\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Bukom Banku and wife Photo credit: Allsports<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">\u201cEventually we got Bukom Banku and eight other suspects arrested. In the course of that we even have some victims including an old lady who was hit by a bottle. She claims that it was Bukom Banku who hit her. We also have another gentleman who sustained cuts on the head,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8211;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">By: Franklin Badu Jnr\/citifmonline.com\/Ghana<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Boxer Braimah Kamoko alias\u00a0Bukum Banku has been released from Police custody. [contextly_sidebar id=&#8221;anXNKiC8eokbzc3lvTsdqSW4Db1LoM2m&#8221;]He was arrested on Tuesday for\u00a0allegedly inflicting physical harm on some persons after a disagreement at a ceremony at Gbese in Accra. Speaking to Citi News the PRO of the Accra regional Police command ASP Effia Tenge \u00a0that investigations are still ongoing in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":24,"featured_media":80158,"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":[43,3,38],"class_list":["post-80151","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-foresight-medical-center","tag-ghana-news","tag-palaver-newspaper"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80151","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=80151"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80151\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/80158"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=80151"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=80151"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/citifmonline.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=80151"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}