{"id":1243718,"date":"2022-11-04T11:47:37","date_gmt":"2022-11-04T11:47:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/04\/xavier-sosu-arrested-for-driving-in-middle-of-the-road\/"},"modified":"2022-11-04T11:47:37","modified_gmt":"2022-11-04T11:47:37","slug":"xavier-sosu-arrested-for-driving-in-middle-of-the-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/04\/xavier-sosu-arrested-for-driving-in-middle-of-the-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Xavier Sosu arrested for driving in middle of the road"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<p>Police have arrested Francis-Xavier Sosu, the Member of Parliament for Madina, for reckless and inconsiderate driving.<\/p>\n<p>The lawmaker, who allegedly broke the law, was arrested on November 3, 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Police in a brief statement said the legislator was arrested after he was seen driving in the middle of the road around Airport in his V8 vehicle with no regard for law-abiding pedestrians and other road users.<\/p>\n<p>Police in the statement said the Madina legislator has been charged to appear in court to be put through the due process of the law.<\/p>\n<p>The legislator\u2019s arrest comes on the back of a campaign being jointly carried out between the Ghana Police Service and Citi TV dubbed War Against Indiscipline.<\/p>\n<p>The <strong>War Against Indiscipline <\/strong>campaign has been running since May 2019 and has largely targeted recalcitrant drivers on Accra\u2019s roads, noted for reckless driving.<\/p>\n<p>These roads included the Tema motorway, Spintex, Legon by-pass, Dawhenya, Pokuase-Amasaman, Kasoa-Weija, Adentan-Dodowa among others.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"L732d_8EYuE\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Parliamentary privileges: The case of Madina MP, Francis-Xavier Sosu and Ghana Police Service\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/L732d_8EYuE?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Police have arrested Francis-Xavier Sosu, the Member of Parliament for Madina, for reckless and inconsiderate driving. The lawmaker, who allegedly broke the law, was arrested on November 3, 2022. Police in a brief statement said the legislator was arrested after he was seen driving in the middle of the road around Airport in his V8 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1243720,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[187],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1243718","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\/1243718","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=1243718"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1243718\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1243718"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1243718"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1243718"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}