{"id":1203257,"date":"2022-09-13T08:53:37","date_gmt":"2022-09-13T08:53:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/13\/expatriate-detained-for-using-presidential-sticker-faces-court-today\/"},"modified":"2022-09-13T08:53:37","modified_gmt":"2022-09-13T08:53:37","slug":"expatriate-detained-for-using-presidential-sticker-faces-court-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/13\/expatriate-detained-for-using-presidential-sticker-faces-court-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Expatriate detained for using presidential sticker; faces court today"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>An expatriate, Ghaadour Hishan-Hassaan, has been detained by the Airport police Motor Traffic and Transport Directorate (MTTD) for using an office of the president sticker without authorization.<\/p>\n<p>He used a Nissan patrol with a siren and strobe light while following an ambulance to manoeuvre through traffic on the airport bypass.<\/p>\n<p>The police MTTD gave him a chase after he failed to stop during <strong>Citi TV<\/strong>\u2018s \u2018War Against Indiscipline\u2019 campaign.<\/p>\n<p>He was accosted and charged for driving on the wrong side of the road and using sirens without permission.<\/p>\n<p>He was detained by the airport police and will be prosecuted at the La motor court today, Tuesday, September 13, 2022.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>War Against Indiscipline campaign<\/strong><\/h4>\n<p>The #WarAgainstIndiscipline \u2013 Be the change campaign is aimed at helping to avert the increasing loss of lives through road crashes.<\/p>\n<p>The station began\u00a0<strong>the campaign against all forms of indiscipline<\/strong> in the country in May 2019.<\/p>\n<p>The exercise took the nation by surprise when it partnered with the Ghana Police Service to arrest errant drivers, process them for court, and have them fined.<\/p>\n<p>It covered\u00a0roads noted for reckless driving within and outside Accra.<\/p>\n<p>The first leg of the campaign was aimed at checking indiscipline on roads.<\/p>\n<p>The campaign was also targeted at putting regulatory bodies on their toes to ensure that the various road safety laws are enforced.<\/p>\n<p>The second leg sought to compel drivers to stay within speed limits.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Citi TV\u2018s collaboration with the police to clamp down on errant drivers <strong>accrued to the state over GH\u00a2258,000<\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>The amount was realized from 499 drivers who were arrested for breaching traffic regulations on various roads in Accra at the time.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An expatriate, Ghaadour Hishan-Hassaan, has been detained by the Airport police Motor Traffic and Transport Directorate (MTTD) for using an office of the president sticker without authorization. He used a Nissan patrol with a siren and strobe light while following an ambulance to manoeuvre through traffic on the airport bypass. The police MTTD gave him [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1071858,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1203257","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203257","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=1203257"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1203257\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1203257"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1203257"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1203257"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}