{"id":1142275,"date":"2022-07-05T12:20:23","date_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:20:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/05\/two-ghanaian-footballers-arrested-in-india-over-fake-travel-documents\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T12:20:23","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:20:23","slug":"two-ghanaian-footballers-arrested-in-india-over-fake-travel-documents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/07\/05\/two-ghanaian-footballers-arrested-in-india-over-fake-travel-documents\/","title":{"rendered":"Two Ghanaian Footballers Arrested In India over fake travel documents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Two Ghanaian footballers were arrested by Meghalaya Police in the Northeastern part of India for not possessing valid travel documents on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>A police team intercepted a tourist vehicle bearing registration number ML 05 T 3049 in NH 6 along Ummulong and detected six African nationals.<\/p>\n<p>Out of the six African nationals, there were two Ghanaians involved in the incident.<\/p>\n<p>The six footballers were proceeding toward East Jaintia Hills district for participating in a football tournament in Mosiang Lamare village, the Superintendent of Police of West Jaintia Hills district, Bikram D Marak, said.<\/p>\n<p>The group planned to play a semi-final football match as they were hired by some football clubs.<\/p>\n<p>The Ghanaians among the six people arrested namely, Enock Kwabena (29) and Moses Zutah (24) possessed valid travel documents and have since been released from police custody.<\/p>\n<p>Other players arrested are identified to come from Nigeria, Mozambique, Liberia, and Guinea.<\/p>\n<p>Footballghana.com understands they could produce a valid travel document, however, they are still in police custody.<\/p>\n<p><!-- AI CONTENT END 2 -->\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two Ghanaian footballers were arrested by Meghalaya Police in the Northeastern part of India for not possessing valid travel documents on Saturday. A police team intercepted a tourist vehicle bearing registration number ML 05 T 3049 in NH 6 along Ummulong and detected six African nationals. Out of the six African nationals, there were two [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1069816,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[2766,7910,2258,124,1750,6767,1440],"class_list":["post-1142275","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-arrested","tag-documents","tag-fake","tag-footballers","tag-ghanaian","tag-india","tag-travel"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142275","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1142275"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1142275\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1142275"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1142275"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1142275"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}