{"id":737778,"date":"2019-11-04T19:04:24","date_gmt":"2019-11-04T19:04:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2019\/11\/04\/kumasi-police-hunt-for-mp-attackers\/"},"modified":"2019-11-04T19:04:24","modified_gmt":"2019-11-04T19:04:24","slug":"kumasi-police-hunt-for-mp-attackers","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2019\/11\/04\/kumasi-police-hunt-for-mp-attackers\/","title":{"rendered":"Kumasi Police Hunt For MP Attackers"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p><strong>Kennedy Kankam  <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>POLICE IN Kumasi have launched a manhunt for a masked gang that threatened the Member of Parliament for Nhyiaeso Constituency, Kennedy Kankam during a robbery at his residence in Kumasi.<\/p>\n<p>The legislator and his family were said to have been held hostage for three hours by three men who forced their way into his house around 1:00 am on Sunday, and later escaped with cash, laptops and a Toyota Landcruiser.<\/p>\n<p>Spokesman for the Ashanti Regional Police Command, ASP Godwin Ahianyo, said the MP and his family were uninjured but left in a very distressed state.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis was a horrific experience for anyone to endure and therefore it is important that we trace the persons responsible,\u201d he stated.<\/p>\n<p>According to ASP Ahianyo, the unidentified men scaled a wall into the MP\u2019s compound and gained access into the bedroom with the use of a metal cutter.<\/p>\n<p>The police spokesman indicated that the MP\u2019s Landcruiser vehicle had since been retrieved after the suspected robbers abandoned it at Kwadaso Dwenase.<\/p>\n<p>Investigations are underway to arrest the perpetrators of the crime, he added.<\/p>\n<p><strong>BY Ernest Kofi Adu, Kumasi <\/strong><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kennedy Kankam POLICE IN Kumasi have launched a manhunt for a masked gang that threatened the Member of Parliament for Nhyiaeso Constituency, Kennedy Kankam during a robbery at his residence in Kumasi. 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