{"id":1205848,"date":"2022-09-16T16:43:00","date_gmt":"2022-09-16T16:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/16\/wa-residents-protest-after-latest-suspected-killing-of-security-guard\/"},"modified":"2022-09-16T16:43:00","modified_gmt":"2022-09-16T16:43:00","slug":"wa-residents-protest-after-latest-suspected-killing-of-security-guard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/16\/wa-residents-protest-after-latest-suspected-killing-of-security-guard\/","title":{"rendered":"Wa residents protest after latest suspected killing of security guard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Some Wa residents have demonstrated after the suspected killing of a security guard in a suburb of the Upper West Regional capital.<\/p>\n<p>Since February, at least 10 security guards have been killed in Wa.<\/p>\n<p>In this instance, there was no trace of the security guard\u2019s body, but residents found traces of blood near the Wa Technical University.<\/p>\n<p>Residents subsequently gathered at the Wa Secondary Technical to protest.<\/p>\n<p>They are concerned the situation has gotten out of hand and\u00a0blamed the issue on the security situation in the region and a lack of streetlights.<\/p>\n<p>One of the residents said, \u201cwe are living in fear, total fear. It is too much because these days, the streetlights on or streets are not working.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWhen you even want to sleep in your room, you can\u2019t sleep. We are living in total fear,\u201d he added.<\/p>\n<p>Another complained that \u201cwe have all the security apparatus that you can boast off but yet our regional minister, MCEs and traditional authorities are doing nothing about the case.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"hubHpBW0eic\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Wa: Angry youth besiege police station; demand release of persons involved in flogging incident\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hubHpBW0eic?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Some Wa residents have demonstrated after the suspected killing of a security guard in a suburb of the Upper West Regional capital. Since February, at least 10 security guards have been killed in Wa. In this instance, there was no trace of the security guard\u2019s body, but residents found traces of blood near the Wa [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1158192,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1205848","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\/1205848","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=1205848"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1205848\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1205848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1205848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1205848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}