{"id":12728,"date":"2013-01-29T03:41:00","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T03:41:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2013\/01\/one-dead-in-palace-fire\/"},"modified":"2013-01-29T03:41:00","modified_gmt":"2013-01-29T03:41:00","slug":"one-dead-in-palace-fire","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/01\/29\/one-dead-in-palace-fire\/","title":{"rendered":"One dead in palace fire"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p class=\"c1\">A man, Monima George, was killed at the weekend in a fire at the home of the 105-year-old monarch of Rumuwoji community, Port Harcourt, John Dike. The late George was 61.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c1\">Men of the State Fire Service ran out of water but firemen from the Nigerian Agip Oil Company (NAOC) put out the fire.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c1\">Commissioner for Special Duties Dickson Omunakwe was on the scene coordinating efforts to put out the fire and rescue residents.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c1\">It was learnt that a nearby warehouse near the building was razed.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c1\">A trader, who rented the warehouse, travelled last week to buy goods for his shop.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c1\">Most of the items, particularly provisions, were stored in the warehouse.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c1\">It was gathered that the late George had been ill for some months and could not escape when the fire started.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c1\">The monarch was hurriedly moved out of the house to an undisclosed place.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c1\">Though the cause of the fire was yet to be ascertained, some errant youth leaders of Rumuwoji, who threatened the king at a peace meeting, were suspected to have been behind it.<\/p>\n<p class=\"c1\">Police spokesman Ben Ugwuegbulam said: \u201c Serious investigation is ongoing.\u201d<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A man, Monima George, was killed at the weekend in a fire at the home of the 105-year-old monarch of Rumuwoji community, Port Harcourt, John Dike. &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12728\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}