{"id":592651,"date":"2019-02-19T22:01:51","date_gmt":"2019-02-19T22:01:51","guid":{"rendered":"<br><p>About 15 armed security men in two police vehicles stormed Afrifa Yamoah-Ponkoh's Fumesua residence and picked him up.<\/p><div>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\">Former Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, Joseph Yamin\u00a0and the former Munici"},"modified":"2019-02-19T22:01:51","modified_gmt":"2019-02-19T22:01:51","slug":"update-yamoah-ponkoh-yamin-questioned-over-fatal-ndc-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/02\/19\/update-yamoah-ponkoh-yamin-questioned-over-fatal-ndc-shooting\/","title":{"rendered":"Update: Yamoah-Ponkoh, Yamin questioned over fatal NDC shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p>About 15 armed security men in two police vehicles stormed Afrifa Yamoah-Ponkoh&#8217;s Fumesua residence and picked him up.<\/p>\n<div>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\">Former Deputy Ashanti Regional Minister, Joseph Yamin\u00a0and the former Municipal Chief Executive for Ejisu-Juabeng, Afrifa\u00a0Yamoah-Ponkoh, have been interrogated by the police.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\">This is in connection with the fatal shooting at the party\u2019s Kumasi Office on Monday.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\">The two former\u00a0appointees in the erstwhile John Mahama administration were questioned\u00a0regarding the confusion and the shooting to death of a man. Another has been left battling for his life when gunmen stormed the party office and opened fire on them.<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Ashanti NDC gunshot\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/02\/6398718035624_1553185318027.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">According to an eye witness, the assailant, associated with an NDC militia, the Hawks, shot an NDC man thrice. First in the leg as he runs\u00a0and twice in the chest at close range as he lay vulnerable.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">About 15 armed security men in two police vehicles stormed the\u00a0Fumesua residence of Yamoah-Ponkoh and conducted a search at the place before they asked him to follow them to the Regional Command to give \u201can ordinary statement,\u201d he told journalists.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">\u201cIt was more of a friendly kind of thing [conversation],\u201d he added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><b><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Watch:\u00a0<\/span>Yamoah-Ponkoh explains Police invitation over <\/b><b>fatal<\/b><b> shooting <\/b><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3WYO7SrHVEM\" width=\"640\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.ghanamma.com\/2019\/02\/1550613711_11_2044021957967_6784706618481.jpg\"\/><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><b><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Yamoah-Ponkoh\u2019s <\/span><\/b><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b>residence<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">Yamoah-Ponkoh was released later Tuesday afternoon while the former Deputy Minister has also been invited by the police, the reporter added.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">The Ashanti Region Police is on a manhunt for four key persons said to be connected to the crime. They are Husein Barnabas, also known as Warrior, Mijima, Damos, and Abu Taliban as named in a statement issued by the police.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\"><b>Read also: Police on manhunt for 4 NDC &#8216;Hawks&#8217; over Kumasi shooting<\/b><\/span><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/1002554\/Myjoyonline\/mjo-article-leaderboard_mid --><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">General Secretary of the NDC, Johnson Asiedu Nketia has told Joy FM, the party will not shield the perpetrators.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin-left:0in; margin-right:0in\"><span style=\"font-family:Calibri,sans-serif\">\u201cWe have indicated that crime has no party colours. We don\u2019t know who perpetrated this but because of the presence of the eyewitness, I am sure it will not be difficult for the police to get people to identify the perpetrators. 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