{"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\/2014\/12\/armed-robbers-lash-customs-officer-shoot-another\/","title":{"rendered":"Armed robbers lash customs officer, shoot another"},"content":{"rendered":"
Suspected armed robbers, last week, shot one person and assaulted another during an attack on officers of Ghana Revenue Authority – customs division at their Wodome check point at Kpetoe in the Volta region.<\/p>\n
A custom officer in the area told citifmonline.com<\/strong> that the incident happened at about 9 pm on Wednesday.<\/p>\n 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 [contextly_sidebar id=”Qdm5XGNUOhGdj7m6nGCz7lIC8ji8h8xi”]”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?” He said.<\/p>\n 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 The robbers broke into the room, ransacked the place and made away with a ten round SMG Ruffle TB3569.<\/p>\n 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