{"id":688915,"date":"2019-08-22T13:46:08","date_gmt":"2019-08-22T13:46:08","guid":{"rendered":"<br><div>\n\t\t\n<p><strong>Nii Ayitey Anumle Oyanki II and Nii Laryea<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The\nAccra Regional Police Command is currently holding the Chief of Opah \u2013 a\ncommunity near Sapeiman in the Ga West Municipality \u2013 for attempted murder.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Nii\nAy"},"modified":"2019-08-22T13:46:08","modified_gmt":"2019-08-22T13:46:08","slug":"opah-chief-arrested-for-attempted-murder","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/08\/22\/opah-chief-arrested-for-attempted-murder\/","title":{"rendered":"Opah Chief Arrested For Attempted Murder"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Nii Ayitey Anumle Oyanki II and Nii Laryea<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nAccra Regional Police Command is currently holding the Chief of Opah \u2013 a<br \/>\ncommunity near Sapeiman in the Ga West Municipality \u2013 for attempted murder.<\/p>\n<p>Nii<br \/>\nAyitey Anumle Oyanki II, 36, was arrested last Friday evening for allegedly<br \/>\nshooting a man, and stabbing and holding the man\u2019s brother hostage for hours on<br \/>\nsuspicion that they were spies of a rivalry chief.<\/p>\n<p>According<br \/>\nto the police, 15 others believed to be Nii Ayitey\u2019s land guards are being tracked<br \/>\nto assist in investigations.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nchief has been remanded in police custody by an Accra Circuit Court for in<br \/>\ninvestigations to continue.<\/p>\n<p><strong>\u00a0Capture<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nsuspect was at loggerheads with a rivalry chief identified as Nii Abbey Okanfra,<br \/>\naka Staff, a development chief at Sapeiman.<\/p>\n<p>Police<br \/>\nsources say the two chiefs have been using land guards for their activities and<br \/>\non August 16, the suspect\u2019s land guards saw one Nii Laryea, 23, and raised the<br \/>\nalarm that he had come to spy on them. Therefore, the suspect gave his land<br \/>\nguards the order to \u2018arrest\u2019 and detain Nii Laryea.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThey<br \/>\narrested the boy on a street in front of the palace, gave him severe beatings<br \/>\nafter which they used broken beer bottles to stab him on the head and buttocks,\u201d<br \/>\nthe police source said.<\/p>\n<p>Not<br \/>\nsatisfied, the land guards dragged Laryea inside the palace to further \u2018torture\u2019<br \/>\nhim, holding him hostage for close to three hours.<\/p>\n<p>When<br \/>\nDaniel Nii Aryee, 40, brother of the victim, heard about the incident, he<br \/>\ntogether with some opinion leaders rushed to the palace to plead with the<br \/>\nsuspect to release the victim but the land guards prevented them entry. Later,<br \/>\nthey managed to force themselves inside.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\npolice said the suspect then fired his gun, hitting Daniel Nii Aryee in the<br \/>\nwaist whilst the others ran for their lives. Subsequently, they reported the<br \/>\nmatter to the police.<\/p>\n<p>The<br \/>\nAccra Regional Police Commander, Deputy Commissioner of Police (DCOP) Fred Adu<br \/>\nAnim, confirmed the incident and said they arrested the suspect and freed the<br \/>\nvictim.<\/p>\n<p>He<br \/>\nconfirmed that there were sporadic shootings in the area and the police<br \/>\nrecovered seven cartridges at the palace.<\/p>\n<p>The pump action gun was also retrieved from the suspect.<\/p>\n<p> <strong>(lindatenyah@gmail.com) <\/strong><\/p>\n<p> <strong>By Linda Tenyah-Ayettey <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Nii Ayitey Anumle Oyanki II and Nii Laryea The Accra Regional Police Command is currently holding the Chief of Opah \u2013 a community near Sapeiman in the Ga West Municipality \u2013 for attempted murder. 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