{"id":155842,"date":"2013-08-17T20:30:00","date_gmt":"2013-08-17T20:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/wild-kumasi-terrorist-restrained-by-police\/"},"modified":"2013-08-17T20:30:00","modified_gmt":"2013-08-17T20:30:00","slug":"wild-kumasi-terrorist-restrained-by-police","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/08\/17\/wild-kumasi-terrorist-restrained-by-police\/","title":{"rendered":"Wild Kumasi &#8216;terrorist&#8217; restrained by police"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><div id=\"newsimage\">&#13;<\/p>\n<div>&#13;<\/p>\n<div class=\"\"> <img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/img.modernghana.com\/images\/content3\/240x_mg_y17gwj3vvq_684380544_574438.jpg\" onclick=\"javascript:window.location='\/GhanaHome\/image_preview.asp?which=1&amp;menu_id=1&amp;id=NDgyODg4';\" border=\"0\" hspace=\"0\" vspace=\"0\" \/><\/div>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n  &#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"bodytext\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowtransparency=\"1\" width=\"360\" height=\"30\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"\/player2\/?x=aHR0cDovL25ld3NhdWRpby5teWpveW9ubGluZS5jb20vbmV3c2F1ZGlvLzIwMTMwOC9QQU5JQy1LU0kubXAz\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Police in the Ashanti regional capital Kumasi have restrained a young man in his 30s who went wild with knives and machetes, terrorising residents of Asafo, a suburb of the Garden City, in the early hours of Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Buffalo Unit of the police service had to be called in after a failed attempt by some artisans in the area to subdue the man who was also extorting monies from road users .<\/p>\n<p>The police equally had a hard time subduing the violent man. Reports say the Police chased him to the top of a two-storey building before he was apprehended.<\/p>\n<p>According to <em> Luv FM&#8217;s<\/em> Erastsus Asare Donkor, the man, whose personal information is yet to be ascertained smashed windscreens of cars who refused to give him money before being picked up by Police.<\/p>\n<p>The wild man, who is most likely to be going round the bend, according to Erastus, was also shouting &#8220;I will kill somebody today&#8221; repeatedly, and making other threats in Arabic and Hausa, scaring residents most of whom took to their heels to protect themselves.<\/p>\n<p>Although there were reports that he had a gun on him, the police could not find one, instead they found a talisman on him.<\/p>\n<p>The Police have kept him in their custody as they delve into his background.<\/p>\n<p>\n<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-size:12px;\">\n<div style=\"padding:5px;background-color: #eee;\"><b>Comments:<\/b><br \/>Leave a comment. <b>0 <\/b>comment so far.<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>&#13;\n\t\t\t    \t<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; &#13; Police in the Ashanti regional capital Kumasi have restrained a young man in his 30s who went wild with knives and machetes, terrorising residents of Asafo, a suburb of the Garden City, in the early hours of Saturday.The Buffalo Unit of the police service had to be called in after a failed attempt by some artisans in the area to subdue the man who was also extorting monies from road users .The police equally had a hard time subduing the violent man. &#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-155842","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155842","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=155842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/155842\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=155842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=155842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2013\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=155842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}