{"id":1211289,"date":"2022-09-26T16:18:10","date_gmt":"2022-09-26T16:18:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/26\/18-arrested-so-far-in-connection-with-wa-killings\/"},"modified":"2022-09-26T16:18:10","modified_gmt":"2022-09-26T16:18:10","slug":"18-arrested-so-far-in-connection-with-wa-killings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/09\/26\/18-arrested-so-far-in-connection-with-wa-killings\/","title":{"rendered":"18 arrested so far in connection with Wa killings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>The Upper West regional police command has arrested a total of 18 persons so far in connection with the killing of 11 persons by unknown men in Wa, the regional capital.<\/p>\n<p>Confirming the arrests to <strong>Citi News<\/strong>, a principal state attorney at the Upper West regional office of the Attorney General\u2019s Department, Saeed Abdu-Shakur, disclosed that eight of the suspects have been granted bail by the Wa circuit court.<\/p>\n<p>The remaining 10 have been remanded in police custody for further investigations into the killings that occurred in Wa in the last nine months.<\/p>\n<p>Police had announced a GH\u00a2100,000 bounty on persons behind the killings in Wa.<\/p>\n<p>Police have special purpose intelligence and investigation teams working with members of the community.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=\/4p69BEMp-_Q\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=\/4p69BEMp-_Q<\/a><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Upper West regional police command has arrested a total of 18 persons so far in connection with the killing of 11 persons by unknown men in Wa, the regional capital. Confirming the arrests to Citi News, a principal state attorney at the Upper West regional office of the Attorney General\u2019s Department, Saeed Abdu-Shakur, disclosed [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1084807,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1211289","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\/1211289","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=1211289"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1211289\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1211289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1211289"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1211289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}