{"id":1258985,"date":"2022-11-27T20:41:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-27T20:41:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/27\/fire-personnel-attack-journalists-with-helmet-at-weija-fire-scene\/"},"modified":"2022-11-27T20:41:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-27T20:41:51","slug":"fire-personnel-attack-journalists-with-helmet-at-weija-fire-scene","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/11\/27\/fire-personnel-attack-journalists-with-helmet-at-weija-fire-scene\/","title":{"rendered":"Fire personnel attack journalists with helmet at Weija fire scene"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div>\n<div class=\"td-post-featured-image\">\n<figure><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"696\" height=\"363\" class=\"entry-thumb\" src=\"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/download-Copy-4-696x363.jpg\"   alt=\"\" title=\"download (Copy)\"\/><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo:  Fire tender<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>Two journalists have been manhandled by some fire officers who were deployed to a fire scene at Weija Junction on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The personnel were responding to a fire outbreak that gutted a warehouse at Weija junction.<\/p>\n<p>The two journalists, Akwasi Addo and Frank Osei, employees of Metro TV and Citi TV respectively were reporting on the fire incident.<\/p>\n<p><!-- \/22191989129,1002554\/MGL\/mgl_ado_atunwa_300x250 --><\/p>\n<p>Whilst taking coverage, a man in plain cloth approached the duo and covered the lense of their camera with his palm asking why they were videoing the scene.<\/p>\n<p>He did not accept any explanation and tried to snatch the camera from the operator, Frank Osei, resulting in tense struggles between him and the journalists.<\/p>\n<p>In a video of the scene recorded by another reporter, the man who failed to disclose his identity is heard threatening to slap a reporter.<\/p>\n<p>Whilst the journalists struggled with the man over the camera, some other uniformed fire service personnel numbering about 10 joined him and physically attacked the journalists.<\/p>\n<p>During the attack, one of them struck the left cheek of Frank with a safety helmet causing it to swell.<\/p>\n<p>Parts of the camera got broken whilst a laptop computer which was in a backpack had its screen broken.<\/p>\n<p>The case has been reported at SCC Police station while medical forms have been issued to them.<\/p>\n<p>            <!--  [embed]https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=videoseries[\/embed]<!--\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>--><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-embed\" data-video_id=\"8c_yIzjakXI\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Adom TV Live Stream\" width=\"696\" height=\"392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/8c_yIzjakXI?feature=oembed&#038;enablejsapi=1\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File photo: Fire tender Two journalists have been manhandled by some fire officers who were deployed to a fire scene at Weija Junction on Saturday. The personnel were responding to a fire outbreak that gutted a warehouse at Weija junction. The two journalists, Akwasi Addo and Frank Osei, employees of Metro TV and Citi TV [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1078676,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1258985","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-local-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258985","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=1258985"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1258985\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1258985"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1258985"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1258985"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}