{"id":465628,"date":"2018-02-19T17:00:29","date_gmt":"2018-02-19T17:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2018\/02\/19\/foase-killing-compensation-only-after-police-report-is-ready-minister\/"},"modified":"2018-02-19T17:00:29","modified_gmt":"2018-02-19T17:00:29","slug":"foase-killing-compensation-only-after-police-report-is-ready-minister","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/02\/19\/foase-killing-compensation-only-after-police-report-is-ready-minister\/","title":{"rendered":"Foase killing: Compensation only after police report is ready \u2013 Minister"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"medsection1\">\n<!-- End of html generated by this->header() --><\/p>\n<p class=\"floatLeft\">General News of Monday, 19 February 2018<\/p>\n<p class=\"floatRight\"><strong>Source: <\/strong>kasapafmonline.com<\/p>\n<p>2018-02-19<\/p>\n<div class=\"article-left\">\n<p class=\"article-image\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/80499433.295.jpg\" alt=\"Clash22\" title=\"Clash22\" width=\"295\" height=\"188\" \/><span class=\"image_caption\"><span>Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"noPrint\">\n<div id=\"537626303\" style=\"width:300;height:250;margin:0;padding:0\">\n<p>\t\t  <noscript><iframe loading=\"lazy\" id=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" name=\"b2ad7fa7fd\" src=\"http:\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/afr?auid=537626303&amp;cb=151125813973067\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\"><a href=\"\/\/ghanaweb-d.openx.net\/w\/1.0\/rc?cs=b2ad7fa7fd&amp;cb=151125813973067\"><\/p>\n<p>\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/02\/1519059629_139_ai\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\" \/><\/a><\/iframe><\/noscript><\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p style=\"clear:right\">The Ashanti Regional Minister Hon Simon Osei Mensah has stated that the Regional Security Council (REGSEC) can pay compensation to bereaved families at Foase who lost their relatives during the recent clash between residents and joint military\/police team only when Police report is ready.<\/p>\n<p>Three persons were shot dead while others sustained injuries after police officers rained life bullets on the residents on Wednesday February 7, 2017 following a clash over the relocation of district capital from Foase to Twedie.<\/p>\n<p>Regional Minister Simon Osei Mensah speaking to the media said the medical bills of those who were injured and the deceased persons would be paid for now.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt will be difficult for REGSEC to say now that we are planning for any compensation or not because we have to wait and when the police report is ready that\u2019s where we can take decision. What I can say here is that the medical bill of those who were injured and the deceased ones would be paid\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Simon Osei Mensah however urged Foase youth and authorities to calm down and maintain law and order to help government to implement the Supreme Court order of the relocation of the district capital to avoid any contempt.<\/p>\n<p>He added that he will visit the community only if security personnel\u2019s tell him that the security situation at the place is good.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI have asked the DCE not to visit the community until the problem is resolved because if he goes there I don\u2019t know what will happen. If he lynched I will be blame and I don\u2019t want that to happen\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>Abusua Fm\u2019s Osei Kwadwo who is following the development reported that workers at the district assembly have resumed work after the clash but the DCE is yet to come to work.<\/p>\n<p><!-- uploaded by: 61 updated by: -1 --><\/p>\n<p><!-- Start of html generated by this->footer() -->\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>General News of Monday, 19 February 2018 Source: kasapafmonline.com 2018-02-19 Ashanti Regional Minister, Simon Osei Mensah The Ashanti Regional Minister Hon Simon Osei Mensah has stated that the Regional Security Council (REGSEC) can pay compensation to bereaved families at Foase who lost their relatives during the recent clash between residents and joint military\/police team only [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":465632,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-465628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465628","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=465628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/465628\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=465628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=465628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2018\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=465628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}